Amazon has introduced a new mobile layout for Free Form dashboards in Amazon Quick, enabling users to access data on smartphones and tablets without the need to pinch or zoom. The mobile layout automatically adjusts dashboards to a single-column, touch-optimized view that fills the device screen, providing immediate access to data. This update aims to simplify the user experience for those who rely on dashboards for daily decisions, such as reviewing pipeline metrics or monitoring operations while traveling. The feature is now available in each supported AWS region, ensuring broad accessibility for users.
The mobile layout transforms the desktop canvas into a single-column, continuous scroll experience that is sized for the device. Visuals fill the screen width, maintain their aspect ratio, and remain interactive. Authors do not need to make any changes for this to take effect, as the layout automatically adjusts when a dashboard is opened on a mobile device. The feature supports both portrait and landscape orientations on mobile browsers, with the mobile experience appearing in portrait and the desktop experience in landscape. This ensures that users can access their data in the preferred format without additional configuration.
According to the source, Mobile Layout is a rendering mode for Free Form dashboards that activates when a reader opens a dashboard on a device with a small viewport. The layout engine detects the screen size and renders the mobile view, which stacks visuals in a single column. Each visual fills the full viewport width while preserving its aspect ratio. This ensures that visuals such as bar charts and line charts remain proportionally accurate on smaller screens. The feature also includes group-aware rendering, which preserves the layered design of overlapping visuals commonly used in Free Form dashboards.
Source: awsml
