Gestures for the Mobile Application
Applications for touchscreen mobile devices let users accomplish certain tasks utilizing various gestures like fingertip swipes or taps. What these gestures do can differ from one application to another. The following table describes what certain gestures do depending on where you use the gesture within the MediaCentral UX mobile application.
Location | Gesture | Description |
Navigation drawer | Tap the name of an iNEWS server. | Opens the Directory panel, which allows you to navigation queues and open rundowns and stories. |
Directory panel | Tap the Back button on your Android device. | Navigates to the last location selected in the Directory panel. If your location is the root position in the Directory panel, tapping the Back button closes the app. |
Body tab | Swipe left. | Displays the Production Cues tab. |
Production Cues tab | Swipe left. | Displays the Sequence tab for assets associated with a story. |
Body tab | Swipe right. | Displays the navigation drawer. You can swipe left to hide the navigation drawer. |
Production Cues tab | Swipe right. | Displays the Body tab. |
Sequence tab | Swipe right. | Displays the Production Cues tab. |
Directory panel | Tap the Up button or swipe right. | Displays the navigation drawer with any Interplay Production or iNEWS servers, regardless of your position in the directory structure. |
Body or Production Cues tab | Tap the Up button. | Displays the navigation drawer. You can swipe left to hide the navigation drawer. |
Navigation drawer | Tap the Back button on your Android device. | Closes the Navigation drawer. |
Script Editor | Swipe Left | Displays the Cue List. |
Script Editor | Tap and hold | Selects the word you tap and allows you to select text and modify text formats. |
Media Viewer | Touch and drag in the timeline | Moves to new position in viewer’s video playback timeline. |
Media Viewer | Tap in the timeline | Moves the Playhead to that position on the timeline. |
Presenter Mode | Swipe left or tap on right edge of screen | Navigates to next page. |
Presenter Mode | Swipe right or tap on left edge of screen | Navigates to previous page. |
Presenter Mode | Tap the Back button | Exits full screen presenter mode. |