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• Luis J. Manso commented  ·  February 12, 2012 5:56 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Qiqqa -http://www.qiqqa.com- is a Mendeley alternative that supports Android annotations.

• Anonymous commented  ·  February 10, 2012 10:16 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I thought it was possible to have Mendeley in my tablet lenovo

• Hervé commented  ·  January 29, 2012 11:58 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Droideley does not work at all. It would be cool to have an official app soon.

• Jen commented  ·  January 24, 2012 11:16 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  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.

• Jim commented  ·  January 18, 2012 1:07 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  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.
  Thanks
  Jim

• Mohammad I. Hirzallah commented  ·  January 17, 2012 2:58 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  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!

• Omar Mian commented  ·  January 13, 2012 6:29 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  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-2011

  No-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.

• Christopher Small commented  ·  January 12, 2012 1:27 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  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.

• Kolja Schleich commented  ·  January 9, 2012 8:17 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  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.

• Ivan commented  ·  January 9, 2012 7:44 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I want to see the Mendeley desktop on the Anrdoid. Will be pleased.

• Pinda commented  ·  January 9, 2012 5:24 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  An android app to access Mendely from android tablets would be welcome. Pinda.

• francois commented  ·  January 9, 2012 4:52 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  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 commented  ·  January 8, 2012 11:51 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  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...

• Pinda commented  ·  January 6, 2012 10:07 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  How about it then, Mendelevium for tablet would be excellent!

• Marcelo Barroso commented  ·  January 5, 2012 12:29 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  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.

• Luísa Mano commented  ·  January 4, 2012 4:36 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I couldn't agree more. I also want an Android app (for phone and tablet)!

• lissa v. young commented  ·  January 3, 2012 2:46 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  android android android android android android android, PLEASE! thank you!

• Anonymous commented  ·  December 29, 2011 10:10 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Seriously, this is the top request... ahead of making italics and other useful fuctions? Seriously?

• b commented  ·  December 24, 2011 1:11 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Add syncing of my annotations and making annotations in the android app. Sorely needed. Right now annotations are tied to your local mendeley desktop database.

• Anonymous commented  ·  December 12, 2011 7:08 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I just downloaded Droideley. Seems to work so far.