Impress Remote

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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

on F-Droid
on Google Play

For iOS

on the iOS App Store

For Pebble

see the Impress Remote for Pebble "Readme" file

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

Testing Builds

For QA and testing

Android:

Get the latest from the dev-downloads server
Some older builds are available from the downloadarchive server

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

Current appearance of the Android Remote
Initial screen, used to choose the computer to remote-control
Once chosen, can start presentation on selected computer
Slideshow started, initial slide thumbnail shown
Slideshow started, 6th slide thumbnail shown
Turn phone to landscape mode for larger slide thumbnails
Or adjust slider to show more adjacent slide thumbnails
Alternate mode: all slide thumbnails for direct selection / jumping. Current slide has red selection cursor
Same slideshow, this time with speaker notes, shown on phone as well
For experts: connection via wifi, selection screen for server
Options menu, from computer selection screen
Options menu, from slide thumbnail screen
Settings menu, available via options menu
About box, available via options menu
Infos about the App

Other pages

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