Tauri Plugin Gamepad

A plugin for Tauri that provides a polyfill for Gamepad Web API that works on most common platforms.

It's built on top of gilrs library.

Tauri versions support

Tauri version	git
1.x	0.0.2
2.0.0-beta	0.0.3
2.0.0-rc	0.0.4

Why

By default WebKit does not support all the joysticks and gamepads, especially on Safari (macOS and iOS). It does support a bit more in Chrome's version of WebKit, but that's not the one used by Tauri.

Therefore this plugin was created to bridge this gap and provide same access via homogenous Gamepad API that's already available in most browsers.

Tutorial

YouTube

Usage

On the javascript side, simply call import 'tauri-plugin-gamepad-api'.

On the rust side, add .plugin(tauri_plugin_gamepad::init()) to your main's Tauri builder call.

See example for more.

Known issues

• Haptic funcionality is not available (because gilrs doesn't support it, though sdl2 does).
• You'll get double ongamepadconnected for some of the devices (one from native implementation, and one from this plugin).

Packages

• tauri-plugin-gamepad on crates
• tauri-plugin-gamepad-api on npm

Supported platforms (from gilrs)

	Input	Hotplugging	Force feedback
Linux/BSD (evdev)	✓	✓	✓
Windows (XInput)	✓	✓	✓
macOS	✓	✓	✕
iOS	✓	✓	✕
Android	✕	✕	✕

Development

Run npm run watch to transpile TypeScript API layer.

Run example demo using these commands:

cd examples/tauri-app
npm run tauri dev

Permissions

Make sure to include proper permissions to enable the plugin to share events with the webpage.

{
  "$schema": "../gen/schemas/desktop-schema.json",
  "identifier": "default",
  "description": "Capability for the main window",
  "windows": ["main"],
  "permissions": [
    "core:app:default",
    "core:event:allow-listen",
    "gamepad:default"
  ]
}

Contributing

When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via issue, email, or any other method with the owners of this repository before making a change.

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2023-2024 Eugene Hauptmann