Keynote for iOS has it's interface clearly split between to main views: The Presentation
Manager and the Keynote Editor and Viewer.
The Presentation Manager which I currently have open displays all your Keynote Presentation
and if you tap and pull down from the top, you can choose to view your Keynotes by Date
or Name.
You can organise your presentations into Folders by tapping and holding and dragging one keynote
onto another.
When I release it, it creates a folder which I can name
and drag additional Keynotes into it.
If you want to rename a presentation, tap on the Keynote title once and enter a new
name then tap Done.
In the upper left you can tap the + button to create a new presentation, copy a presentation
from the iTunes File Sharing which we will look at in more detail later, or from a WebDAV
Server.
Next to that we have the Share button.
This allows you to share you Keynote presentation via iCloud, Send a Copy via iMessages, email,
iTunes File Sharing and Web Dav or Open In Another app which is ideal for things like
turning your Keynote into a video podcast using an app like Explain Everything.
In the far right you can tap the question mark to show coaching tips and finally the
Edit button allows you to duplicate or delete a keynote by selecting a presentation, then
taping either the Duplicate button in the upper left to create a copy, or tap the trash
can to permanently delete your presentation.
Tap Done in the upper right to exit this mode.
The second of main interface area you will spend most of your time in is the Keynote
Editor and Viewer — and this is where you build and play your presentations.
You can access it by either creating a new presentation or by opening an existing Keynote
presentation.
I will open a Keynote I created earlier.
Running down the left hand side of the screen is the Slide Navigator.
I can tap on my slide thumbnails to select one and start editing it.
In the lower left below this is the New Slide button.
Tapping this will allow you to create a new slide using any of the slide templates available
in your chosen theme.
Running along the top of the interface we get access to Keynote's toolbar.
The Presentations button in the upper left returns us to the Presentation Manager.
Next to it we have the Undo button, but if you tap and hold on this, it will give you
access to your Redo button.
Next we have Paint Brush icon which gives us access to the the format inspector.
This allows you to style your objects and will give you different options depending
on what sort of object you have selected whether that be text, images or videos.
Next to our Format Inspector we have the + icon which allows us to add a new object to
our slide and if I tap on it, it gives me access to my Camera Roll, Tables, Charts,
Text and Shapes.
You will notice that under certain windows like Shapes we have small blue dots running
along the bottom of the window.
This means there are multiple pages and each blue dot represents a page.
You can swipe left and right to cycle between them.
To close this simply tap anywhere outside the window.
The wrench icon gives you access to various tools including transitions and builds, text
search, presenter notes as well as Settings such as spell check, guides, comments and
more.
We will look at this in more detail later on.
The Share Icon gives you access to the same sharing features we covered in the Presentation
Manager interface allowing you to quickly share the Keynote you are currently working
on.
The Play icon enters Presentation Mode and is used when delivering your presentation
to an audience and finally, tapping the question mark in the far upper right will show and
hide Keynote's coaching tips.
Now that we understand how the interface is laid out, let's start making a Keynote Presentation
from scratch.