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An android app to access Mendely from android phones would be welcome (when all bugs in the desktop app are fixed ;-)
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Tzevat Tefik
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android application is must!
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osm
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Just a cautionary comment about Qiqqa. Whilst it does have an Android app, it has at least one major pitfall. That is it does not have Mac or Linux versions. I think this is a problem even if you are a Windows user because it rules out using it as a collaborative platform with Mac/Linux-using colleagues. Although the ideal situation would be to have a reference manager available on all desktop and mobile platforms, if I needed to choose (e.g. decide how to distribute development resources), I would say it's currently more important to do cross-desktop-platform well than it is to be cross-mobile-platform.
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Timon Schröder
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Hm... as a student I would also appreciate a usable Mendeley for my Samsung Galaxy 10.1n.
I really would like to profit from the cloud-based sync function from Mendeley and it really would help my studies...I understand that Ipad is first priority due to the percentage of users that a) have an academic bacground and b) are willing to pay.
On the other hand I would like to focus on the point, that I hope that this, or maybe next year the android-market will be bigger and more innovative - so you really shouldn't miss this!To Quigga: If you're still dealing (like me) with scanned images, because the content is just too old to be available in digital format - just forget it. Their PDF-Engine is too slow, and most of the highlighting will not work...
I use ezpdf and export it as an .pdf with the annotations.
regards, Timon
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francois
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Thanks a lot Luis J. Manso!!
Qiqqa is great, never heard of it before. -
ken
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Why Mendeley is not porting to Android:
I am not a part of mendeley rather just a user, but the following is what I perceive. I think mendeley has been very innovative in reference / pdf managment by bringing most desirable features into one great package. However when considering any single feature, I cannot think of many things where mendeley was first (and even the few I consider 'firsts' are probably arguable). My point is that mendeley is concentrating their efforts on being competitive, hence they built an ipad / iphone app to compete with papers. There are no real competitors yet that have android apps (I was excited by the post below about qiqqa, but it is still very beta). Until we see other article managers provide android apps, mendeley will be quite happy to leave the android apps to the dedicated followers. But when they do see competition in that area, I bet they will be quick to follow.
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Luis J. Manso commented
Qiqqa -http://www.qiqqa.com- is a Mendeley alternative that supports Android annotations.
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Hervé
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Droideley does not work at all. It would be cool to have an official app soon.
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Jen
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Droideley does NOT work on my nook color (running CM7) It always gives me an Open API error. I am really hoping an official app will come out soon.
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Jim
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Compatibiulity with the Sony Tablet S model is needed as this low level PC can be very useful for reading PDF's and inserting text with a low level Office-compaible text editor.
I use QuickOffice Pro and would value compatibility with Mendeley for inserting notes.
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Mohammad I. Hirzallah commented
I would like to think that we will be seeing an some effort from Mendeley regarding the android app very soon; it IS THE TOP REQUEST! And I'm sure the independent developers who made the unofficial apps won't have any problem helping you if you allow them to!
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osm
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Christopher,
Android has a bigger smartphone marketshare than iOS for smartphones but that's nowhere near the case for tablets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/25/ipad-tablet-dominates-third-quarter-2011No-one can predict how the release of Windows 8 tablets will affect this and perhaps that's a reason why Mendeley are averse to committing to an in-house android app.
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Christopher Small commented
I first want to echo what I've seen in other comments with regards to a tablet specific version.
Also, I just want to point out that (at least last time I checked) Android still has the bigger market share than iOS. And I would imagine that within the research community there is a strong tendency towards Android due to it's higher level of openess. So, this really does seem like the most natural extension of what is already a very impressive, great system.
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Kolja Schleich commented
I agree with previous comments. I heavily use the internal reader and annotation features of Mendeley Desktop. Further the sorting options by year and read/unread status are very useful. There are some really interesting android tablets on the market and more coming in 2012, however, without a fully functional Mendeley app it doesn't make much sense. If it is possible to open the API to allow the development of internal pdf readers and syncing as well as adding annotations and importing new pdf documents to Mendeley I am fine with that.
I personally think that Mendeley Desktop is working just perfectly and I cannot really think of new must-have features (except for printing from within Mendeley Desktop), but I would mainly use Mendeley on a tablet.
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Ivan
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I want to see the Mendeley desktop on the Anrdoid. Will be pleased.
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Pinda
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An android app to access Mendely from android tablets would be welcome. Pinda.
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francois
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I am with John Rogers, for me the main point of mendeley is that you can annotate your paper on any computer.
Without this functionality I would continue using Zotero or citeUlike.
Now, Mendeley has no advantage on tablets when compared to citeulike. (oh.... and citeulike is free) -
John Rogers
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As many people have commented there are some independent efforts on the Android market. However they are limited by what functions Mendeley expose in their API - currently both developers cannot complete their work because of the API work Mendeley still need to do.
The big thing lacking is accessing notes and annotations made in the desktop application and while i'm dreaming the ability to make notes and annotations - I don't know about anyone else but this is really what i use mendeley for - i read things make a few notes, tag and file and then i can lay my hands on that paper i read 2 months ago easily.
So Its clear you guys are not going to make an android app - and fair enough, but please make it possible for the guys who are doing this to make a great app that really works - incidently if you do finish opening the API like this then the android apps will be more feature complete than the iOS one you have...
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Marcelo Barroso commented
Hello people.
For those who want an android client for Mendeley, there are at least two options in Android Market. They are not official (developed by the Mendeley team itself), but use the oficial Mendeley API (which is the reason why they created an API library to provide access to the database).
I've been using the first one; very nice, works fine, I can open the pdf and read in my cell phone (haven't tried in tablet). The second one has received good reviews too.
Enjoy:
1-Droideley
2-Scholarley(é só procurar no Android Market: https://market.android.com/)
Cheers! Marcelo.
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Luísa Mano
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I couldn't agree more. I also want an Android app (for phone and tablet)!
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lissa v. young
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android android android android android android android, PLEASE! thank you!
