[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Refreshed Android Impress Remote

[Artur Dryomov]

Hi Stefan,

> so, Artur, I don't quite understand why you find this slide-out from the
> bottom so atypical. There are e.g. similar slide-outs in the
> descriptions of applications on Google Play. Of course, they expand to
> the bottom and not from it, and they are somewhere on a content page.
> The Notes bar is not meant to be an action bar, really.

I am not against it at all, I just didn’t see any examples really.
It would be great if you’ll show some examples as Google Play applications.
They will help understanding how it works (and would be useful for implementation).

> So, ... at the same time, I wonder: do we actually need a notes button?

No, we didn’t need it. Actually I prefer to add buttons to action bar only if it is really necessary.
Most of Android phones in portrait mode can show only two action bar buttons.
I can enforce the application to show more but the ideal case is two or three buttons.

> How about always showing any notes when the phone is in portrait mode,
> and never showing them when in landscape?

As I said before it would be just a waste of space if there are no notes.
I want to keep vertical centering as well (as you see at your and my proposals).

I thought about implementing a kind of “smart” UI.
* If there are no notes in a presentation (check every slide) slides are vertical centered everywhere.
* If there are any notes in a presentation keep slides above the screen and notes below.

Another solution is to keep slides vertical centered and notes below slides.
I didn’t forget your solution as well — it is great :-)

> Possible considerations: at some later point, we will probably add
> buttons to play animations (e.g. some people like to let their bullet
> points fly in individually – not that this useless habit should be
> supported ;) ) or videos (some people actually like to put two on a
> slide).
> Especially in the case of videos, we probably need some kind of side
> pane/bottom pane where you can click to play. (So, it's off-slide.) So,
> what I am thinking about here is putting tabs in the bottom pane (one
> for Notes, one for Animation & Video). And it could be argued if the
> animation tab weren't available in landscape mode that would hamper
> usability. So... not sure ultimately.

Yep, it is another problem — slides with transitions like animations or videos.
It breaks swiping a bit — if user changes slides with swiping previews, slide changes without transitions.
Maybe we should consider arrows instead of swiping. It would be something like your proposal.

Regards,
Artur.