Impress Remote

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)

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

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.

Other pages

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


 * Development/Impress/Remote
 * Documentation/HowTo/Impress_Remote_(Android)
 * QA/Bugzilla/Components/Impress_Remote
 * Development/Impress_Remote_Protocol
 * Design/Whiteboards/Impress_remote
 * Design/Playground/Impress_remote