Touch Racer (racing wheel)

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About this app

"Touch Racer" is software that turns any Android device into a racing wheel controller.

It lets you use your smartphone or tablet for steering a car when playing any Windows computer game. The phone and the computer connects each other automatically via Wi-Fi.

It supports any Windows game, which you can play with an ordinary racing wheel, because it completely emulates a real joystick.

To make it work you should also install computer software "Touch Racer" on your Windows (it's available on the website: www.touchracer.com).

*How to steer with a phone*

Your smartphone becomes a steering wheel, for turning the car you just need to turn the phone.

The phone also emulates car pedals. Accelerating and breaking are performed by thumbs. You should swipe over the screen controlling a level of accelerating with a right thumb and breaking with left one. A level of accelerating or breaking is shown on the screen by a colour bar.
This way you can easily choose any level of accelerating and breaking you want from 0% to 100%.

*Requirements for a computer*

Your computer must be on Windows and also support wi-fi or be connected to any wi-fi router by wires.

Ratings and reviews

Nice app Add more steering controls like retarder , horn, cruise control switches, light switches.

This app is great, this is the only controller i found that works so fast and easy, but i would really like to have the option to set some deadzone, becouse the game reacts to even slightest phone shaking in your hands and it makes it a bit hard to control car, I know that you can set deadzone in game settings, but many games dont have that.

The app is unable to establish a connection between my phone and my computer (over WiFi), even though both devices are on the same network. I have also tried the beta version of the app, as well as various versions of vJoy, but to no avail. Ensuring that Windows Firewall rules allow communication between the two components didn't yield a solution (neither did completely disabling the firewall). On that note, debug features such as access to logs and error messages would be a great addition.

What's new

-Title bar in game mode removed
-Fixed Bluetooth error on newer Android versions
-Link to the privacy policy added