Impress Remote

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    See also: Impress Remote help page

    This page is all about the LibreOffice Impress Remote – a handy tool for controlling Impress slideshow presentations from a mobile device.

    Background

    Originally for Android, the Impress Remote is now available on iOS, and Pebble smartwatch as well.

    System Requirements

    See Documentation/HowTo/Impress_Remote_(Android)#Prerequisites

    Builds

    Stable Builds

    If you are interested in using the remote, you can find released builds of the app

    For Android

    For iOS

    For Pebble

    You will also need a reasonably recent version of LibreOffice itself.

    Testing Builds

    For QA and testing

    Android:

    iOS:

    • None, currently (due to the limitations on provisioning from Apple)

    Source Code

    See Development/Impress/Remote#Source_Code

    Playing with the Impress Remote

    Check out the HOWTO page on setting it up for more information.

    History

    The Impress Remote Server and Android App were intially developed mainly by Andrzej Hunt during the 2012 GSoC term, kindly sponsored by Google. Further development on the Android app was done by Artur Dryomov during the 2013 GSoC, again kindly sponsored by Google. An iOS app was developed by Siqi Liu, also during the 2013 GSoC, again kindly sponsored by Google.

    In January 2015, an Impress Remote app for the Pebble smartwatch was unveiled.

    Screenshots

    Other pages

    TODO: the impress remote pages could use some reorg and cleanup