Use multiple screens for presentation ui

[rimach]

I like the Android App for controlling OpenLP.
At the moment (till Version 34) it is a bit complicate to navigate through a service, show the related slides of a service and blank/unblank the live screen.

First of all the new appeareance is much more professional as the old one :-)

May we could have a start presentation button at the main screen.

I would suggest to use three screens then. (you can wipe left/right to get the other screens)

Middle screen:
- this is the central screen and shows the actual Service Items

Left screen:
- this is the special option screen
- the following buttons could placed here:
+ blank/unblank button
+ loop button

Right screen:
- this is the screen for controlling the actual service item

[Phill (phill-ridout)]

I like the wipe idea, I was actually thinking along those lines before reading this.

I do however think that the Middle Screen should be the equivalent of the Live Service Item Widget (e.g Song) As this would be the most used.

The Right screen should be the service list. This would be in keeping with the way the OpenLP programme is presented (Service List to the right of the Live widget

The left would be the actions (Blank, Alert, Etc.)

If used on a tablet in landscape mode, all three screens could be visible at the same time.

[Tim Bentley (trb143)]

Forget wipe as I looked at that early this year and the screens are lists and wipe does not work well with lists. The official twitter client uses tabs across it;s displays.

Reading the comments my view would be:

1) Leave as is for a initial start and back button.

2) Re-Introduce the tabs back for when you are with the service for Service, Live , blanking and Alerts.

[Tim Bentley (trb143)]

Is this still valid as of version 0.5 which added swipe capabilities.

[Tim Bentley (trb143)]

This is based on the old design so not relevant anymore.