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

I've tried a similar app before and never got it to work maybe the setting too complicated. I tried this app and didn't get it the first time. It's actually super simple, the games actually recognize it as a new device easy to set up after that. I am playing Dirt rally 2.0 on it. just have to play around a bit to figure out Best configuration. This is exactly what I was wishing for since I do not have enough space for a bulky steering wheel and pedals. Thank you!

Been using touch racer for 5 years now,. Everything is perfect except the fact that there is no clutch axis. I have my clutch binded on my volume up key, but since its a binary input, accelerating a manual clutch vehicle results in a jolt, sometimes even stalling the car. I'm thinking of placing the clutch slider half of the braking side, and the other half of the screen area is entirely the gas pedal.

Why not tilt of the phone in forward and back direction for accelerator and brake axis? Its going to be useful in other games like airplane sims, not just cars. You are currently just using the left and right tilt of the phone. Please add the ability to control the up-down axis by tilting the phone forward and back, and let the screen of the phone be used by some customisable buttons. Thank you.

What’s new

Target sdk api level udpated.
Two major crush causes fixed.