{"id":281917,"date":"2026-06-25T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/ditch-controllers-with-android-17s-foldable-gaming-mode\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:10:44","slug":"ditch-controllers-with-android-17s-foldable-gaming-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/ditch-controllers-with-android-17s-foldable-gaming-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditch Controllers With Android 17&#8217;s Foldable Gaming Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2026\/06\/25\/android-17-foldable-gaming-mode\/\">Ditch Controllers With Android 17&#8217;s Foldable Gaming Mode<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2026\/06\/25\/android-17-foldable-gaming-mode\/\">https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2026\/06\/25\/android-17-foldable-gaming-mode\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-25 17:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.droid-life.com\">www.droid-life.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Android development team took to reddit this week to preview <strong>Android 17\u2019s<\/strong> foldable gaming mode. Made specifically for foldables, the mode splits your display 50\/50, with the gameplay up top and a full array of controls available on the bottom. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to make this experience as seamless as possible for both players and game developers. Foldable gaming mode creates a virtual gamepad that emulates physical button presses at the system level. This means it\u2019s designed to work with any game that supports physical controllers,\u201d the team explained. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-supported-inputs\">Supported Inputs<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>D-pad<\/li>\n<li>Left and Right Thumbsticks<\/li>\n<li>A, B, X, Y action buttons<\/li>\n<li>L1, L2, L3<\/li>\n<li>R1, R2, R3<\/li>\n<li>Start button<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A lot of thought seems to have went into the customization of the layout, too. There are numerous configurations to choose from, with Google noting that not everyone holds a controller the same way. Themeing is also available for the controllers. <\/p>\n<p>Once available to devices, foldable owners will simply need to open their device, open a supported title, and then enjoy the new mode. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re excited for this. It\u2019s expected to release in the \u201ccoming months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\/\/ reddit<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2026\/06\/25\/android-17-foldable-gaming-mode\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ditch Controllers With Android 17&#8217;s Foldable Gaming Mode https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2026\/06\/25\/android-17-foldable-gaming-mode\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-25 17:25:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":281919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Galaxy-Z-Fold-7-1-1200x628.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-281917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281921,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281917\/revisions\/281921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}