Scholarley is an unofficial Android client for Mendeley; which is a free and convenient application for managing your library of academic papers (see: http://www.mendeley.com/). Scholarley has been designed for both Android phones and tablets.
If you find a bug in Scholarley, or want to request a new feature, feel free to submit a ticket at http://bugs.matthewwardrop.info; or contact me directly. However, please keep in mind that I am a full time PhD student, and Scholarley is written in my spare time; originally just for myself. Overly critical reviews and impatience are not at all motivating.
<b>Current Features</b>
Scholarley's current features:
- Authentication with Mendeley using OAuth.
- Viewing of document details in a refined format.
- Opening documents and attachments of any format provided that your Android device supports them. An external PDF viewer is required for viewing PDFs.
- A convenient user interface which supports filtering documents by:
- (sub-)folder
- group
- author (with smart deduplication)
- tags
- And support for sorting documents by title, author, citation key, date of addition to library, and date of last modification.
- Full offline synchronisation of your Mendeley library (including, at your option, PDFs and attachments).
- Local changes to document tags are persistent through synchronisations, but cannot yet be uploaded to Mendeley.
<b>Upcoming Features</b>
Features currently under development include:
- Full persistent local modifications to document metadata.
- Undo support for local changes made to the library.
- Detection of PDF modifications (such as the addition of annotations).
- Refinement of the user interface.
<b>Other planned features for 1.0.0</b>
Scholarley's upcoming and proposed features for 1.0.0 include:
- Local changes to folders (adding, deleting, and moving documents into and out of them); with the ability to synchronise those changes to Mendeley.
- Full two-way synchronisation of document metadata.
- PDF upload to Mendeley support.
<b>Roadmap</b>
Features are added to Scholarley as and when the developer feels motivated to do so. Tweaks to the user interface will occur throughout the development. As a general guide, however, the development of Scholarley will follow the roadmap below.
- 0.9.8.x releases will be focussed on extending the abilities to locally modify your library; with some upload capabilities.
- 0.9.9.x releases will be focussed on extending support for pushing local changes to Mendeley.
- 1.0.0 RC x releases will be focussed on bugfixing and (potentially) translations, if people are interested in having Scholarley available in their native tongue.
- 1.0.0 will mark the first official stable release of Scholarley.
<b>Subsidisation</b>
Scholarley was originally intended for my private use only. Since then, at the request of many people, various features have been added. In order to sponsor future development, it is necessary that I find monetary remuneration. Consequently, an in-app upgrade will be required to unlock all upload and social functionality. This can be purchased in advance for a reduced price of AUD$3. As these features are implemented, the price will be increased. Viewing of your library, and local modifications to it, will always remain free.
<b>Note concerning Mendeley Open API:</b>
Scholarley is limited by the API offered by Mendeley. Recently, their Open API has been significantly improved; and Scholarley has yet to take advantage of all of the new features. I commend Mendeley for the helpful correspondence I have had with them regarding new features to the API; and their readiness to assist. I look forward to the future of Mendeley.
If Scholarley does not satisfy your needs, please consider alternative Android clients for Mendeley such as Droideley and Referey.
