Impress Remote

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Impress Remote
Original author(s) Android: Andrzej Hunt and others, iOS: Siqi Liu
Developer(s) The Document Foundation
Initial releaseiOS: February 2014
Stable release
2.2.3
Written in Java, Objective-C
Operating system Android, iOS, Pebble
Available inMultilingual (113)
Type Remote desktop software
License MPL v2
Website Official wiki

Impress Remote is an open-source presentation remote control app for LibreOffice on mobile devices. The client allows interacting with slideshow presentations from a mobile device, including slide previews, speaker notes, timer, stop watch, pointer, going directly to a given slide, blank screen and more (depending on the mobile version). [1] [2] [3]

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The Android version was developed mainly by Andrzej Hunt during the 2012 Google Summer of Code term. In February 2014, Impress Remote for /iPad was announced to be available in iTunes Store. [4] The iOS version was developed mainly by Siqi Liu during the 2013 Google Summer of Code term.

In January 2015, an Impress Remote app for the Pebble smartwatch was unveiled. [5] [6]

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References

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