Gamepad API vibration on Android 12+

Category: Device
Type: No developer-visible change
Status: In development (Chrome In development)
Intent stage: Start prototyping

Summary

Enable support for Gamepad API dual-rumble effects through the VibratorManager API added in Android 12.

Motivation

Vibration support was added for desktop platforms in Chrome 68: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5705158763741184 No support was added to Android because at the time the Android platform API did not expose gamepad vibrators. Android 12 introduced VibratorManager API which can be used to issue rumble-style haptic effects on supported gamepads. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/VibratorManager

Standards & signals

Specification: https://github.com/w3c/gamepad/pull/163
Firefox: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/1338644

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