the root of the problem here is that ant was removed from the android build tools after KitKat I believe? In any case, it's necessary for lime to download the android sdk it needs in order for ant to be there.

Using an up to date android sdk elsewhere on the system may cause some problems for you since build.xml will continue to not be found unless the sdk is downgraded. My solution was to have a completely different android sdk just for lime, seems to work ok compiling with Android sdk 19.

while the title for this thread is definitely incorrect - when pulling the gamepad example at
http://haxeflixel.com/demos/GamepadTest/

I can successfully connect a xbox360 controller and have it detected using firefox on android, chrome on android and desktop - but I cannot successfully detect a gamepad on desktop firefox.

As another thread indicated, the gamepad events are provided to haxeflixel through openfl.

Sounds like the issue was on chromium on linux, I wonder if using stardard chrome on windows or android chrome or firefox might've worked.

I have yet to see the demo work with any controller on desktop firefox.