# Comparison between Controlify 1.0.0 and Midnight Controls 1.8.0

|                                          | Controlify                                                                                                     | Midnight Controls                                                                        |
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| **Custom Screen Compatibility**          | Convenient APIs to hook into controller support directly from `Screen` implementation.                         | No API. Sometimes necessary to mixin into Midnight Controls and edge-case code required. |
| **Screen Navigation**                    | 4-axis navigation, emulating arrow key navigation                                                              | 4-axis navigation, emulating arrow key navigation                                        |
| **In-game button guide**                 | Extensible by 3rd party mods                                                                                   | Harcoded buttons and positions                                                           |
| **Reach-around block placement**         | ⛔ Planned                                                                                                     | ✅                                                                                       |
| **Controller detection**                 | Powered by resource packs for unlimited detection                                                              | Hardcoded identifiers in code                                                            |
| **Controller button rendering**          | Powered by resource pack controller detection                                                                  | Texture atlas for hardcoded identifiers                                                  |
| **In-game look sensitivity & behaviour** | Emulated Bedrock Edition with good defaults and snappy behaviour                                               | testing required - reported bad defaults                                                 |
| **Container interaction**                | Controlled cursor snaps to container slots (with API) with power of left click, right click and shift click    | No slot snapping, testing required                                                       |
| **Touchscreen support**                  | ⛔                                                                                                             | ✅                                                                                       |
| **Joystick support**                     | ✅ Only one joystick can be used at a time (currently)                                                         | ✅ Multiple joysticks can be combined together                                           |
| **Joystick mapping**                     | Powered by resource packs, unlimited amount of buttons available                                               | All combined joysticks limited to gamepad input. Powered by SDL mappings                 |
| **Configurability**                      | Each controller has individual settings with the ability to map every single controller action. No hardcoding! | needs testing                                                                            |
| **Mod keybindings**                      | Mods must explicitly support Controlify for their keybinds                                                     | All keybinds work out of box after mapping buttons                                       |
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