How to control an office 2010 PowerPoint presentation remotely using an android application?

Question

Hello,

I want to write an Android remote control application that allows people to navigate back and forth on a PowerPoint slideshow presentation in Microsoft Office (preferably 2007/2010) on my PC. In this case, I have to make a small PowerPoint navigation client on the Android, and also I have create a PC server to access Microsoft Office PowerPoint and manipulate its slideshow. I know it is possible for a java application to gain access to Microsoft Office PowerPoint's slideshow. Some applications for Android are already made (Gmote 2.0 and such) and they can be used to navigate PowerPoint slideshows.

Is there any extension or any library that can be used to gain access to Microsoft Office PowerPoint? Thank you.

Answer 1

You could just write the server side code to inject keyboard events (arrow keys). Presuming the slide show is currently running, that should be sufficient.