Gamepads lose their identity across restarts
Gamepads cannot be reliably identified across restarts because uuid is nil or misleading and vendor and product IDs are not exposed.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 12 May 2020 · last reported 17 December 2023
What's going wrong
Developers building with the gilrs gamepad library report that a device cannot be reliably recognised after the app restarts.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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