Touch Adaptation Kit (TAK) Reference - XBOX Game Development Documentation

Bundle & Tools

Topic	Description
Touch Adaptation Bundle (TAB)	A self-contained set of layouts, assets and configuration to enable playing the game with touch.
Touch Adaptation Kit Command Line Tool (tak.exe)	Create and validate touch control layouts. Enable streaming devices to acquire layouts from your PC.

Layout Configuration

The base layout components of a touch layout.

Topic	Description
Layout	The representation of a full touch layout for a game.
Control cluster	An array of up to four controls that can be used to occupy two slots in the outer portion of the wheel.
Inner wheel	An array of up to four controls that split the inner portion of a wheel.
Layer	An experimental child touch layout that can be overlayed on top of the base touch layout.
Layer action	An experimental action that a button can use to display a layer.
Layout orientation	(deprecated) The orientation that the touch layout will be displayed.
Wheel	A set of touch controls arranged in an inner and outer circular area.

Touch Controls

The set of visual controls that are available for your touch layouts.

Control	Description	Examples
Arcade Buttons	A collection of 6 or 8 buttons laid out in an arc, in the style of arcade cabinets.
Blank	An expiremental control used in a `layer` to hide the control that was being displayed in the slot.
Button	A basic control that can respond to player touch input.
Directional Pad	A directional pad control that always maps the gamepad directional pad.
Joystick	An analog control that behaves like a joystick.
Throttle	A specialized version of a Y-axis only joystick that maps to triggers. Designed for driving games.
Touchpad	Analog control that enables the player to interact similar to a laptop touchpad.

Control Styling & Components

Component	Description
Action	Physical controller action(s) that can be referenced.
Asset	Reference to a custom image that has been included in the touch adaptation package.
Axis	Definition of the mapping of touch controls to the physical analog control equivalent.
Color	Reference to a color.
Deadzone	Definition for the amount of player interaction that should not be registered as input.
Hexcolor	String containing hexadecimal representation of RGBA color value to be referenced.
Icon	Reference to an icon.
Joystick outline and indicator	The styling attributes for the outer ring of a joystick controls.
Knob	The styling attributes for a button like component that can be interacted with by the player.
Response curve	Definition of the curve range for mapping input mapped to output.
Stroke	The styling attributes for the outline of the object being referenced.
Throttle axis	The styling attributes for an axes of a throttle control.

Sensor Controls

Sensor controls allow mapping of physical sensors on the player’s device to be mapped to a physical controller input.

Control	Description
Accelerometer	An experimental sensor control that maps the devices accelerometer of the client device (if available) to a specified set of axes.
Gyroscope	A sensor control that maps the devices physical movement to a specified set of axes.

Last modified on August 20, 2026

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