A tablet is a great middle ground: a big enough screen to see a whole board or dashboard, with touch for quick, direct changes. liveplanner runs in the tablet's browser, with no app to install, and adapts to how much screen room it has at the moment.
It adapts to your screen
liveplanner chooses its layout from the size of the screen it has, not from the kind of device:
- On a screen at least 640 pixels wide (almost every tablet, upright as well as sideways) you get the full layout, the same as on a computer: boards with their columns side by side and their header widgets, dashboards in rows, and labels beside the buttons.
- Only a narrower window (liveplanner in a narrow split-screen pane, say) switches to the compact layout described in the Mobile guide, where a board shows one column a screen and a dashboard stacks its slots.
So rotating a tablet usually keeps the same layout; sideways just gives you more columns at once.
Touch works everywhere
- On a board, a finger on a card picks it up so you can drag it to another column; a finger on the board's empty space moves you round. Press and hold a card for its menu (when you can edit), the touch version of a right-click.
- On a sheet, tap a cell to select it and drag to scroll. To select a range, hold a finger still on a cell until it grabs, then drag. Hold and let go without moving to open the cell's menu.
- On a dashboard, the handles for moving slots and resizing rows are always shown, since a finger can't hover, and are sized for a fingertip.
- On a form, you build the questions in place, just as on a computer.
Touch has no hover, so tooltips and hover previews don't appear: press and hold a button that shows only an icon to see its name.
Add a keyboard for more
Pair a keyboard with your tablet and the keyboard shortcuts come back: undo and redo, search, moving cards with the arrow keys, and the spreadsheet keys in a sheet. Without a keyboard you can still do all of this with the on-screen controls; a keyboard just adds the faster way.
Holding the tablet sideways shows the most columns of a board, or the widest rows of a dashboard, at once.
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