Animations not working with touchpad?

Hello, in my game I had keyboard controls to try playing my game and the animations work. But when I try using a touchpad to move the player the walking animations and attacking animations don't play despite working with keyboard controls. Help would be greatly appreciated.

Project file

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Thanks for pointing out my error in event 121, but could you explain further on using the system condition "Is between angles"? I'm not sure I understand how to use that condition. Screenshots would help greatly if possible as well, thanks.

These are what I've tried but it still doesn't seem to work so I think I'm doing something wrong.

So the character moves correctly and mirrors, but animations are not playing? Could you re-upload the changed file? In the previous version it couldn't even move properly with the touchpad.

EDIT: Actually, no need. The problem is that your two groups (Player Movement and TouchPad) are clashing. When no keys are pressed, your events 21-28 reset animation to "Idle" on every tick.

Since you have more than one way to control the character, the best solution would be creating a separate group that will manage animations, not based on control method, but based on 8direction moving angle.

Something like this:

I fixed it thanks to your help, the problem was that my keyboard controls were messing with my touchpad controls for some reason. Here's the file if you're interested. But I only get a black screen when I try to test the debug apk on my Android device, could you please help with that as well?

drive.google.com/open