Thank you so much for releasing the Android App, makes Zotero even more useful!!
Two improvements that would be great in the future, especially for all of us, who use Zotero on an Eink Tablet: - It would be awesome if there would be a paginated view for Web-Captures/Snapshots. Right now they are only scrollable. On a E-Ink Device, they would be easier to read with pagination though. Also, it would be awesome if we could highlight Web-Captures/Snapshots directly in the app. - A high contrast mode for E-Ink devices would also be nice. On my Boox Go 10.3, the UI of the Zotero App looks way more pale than the UI of the native Boox-Interface. It would be cool if there was a In-App Setting to make the App look better on Eink-Screens.
Hi, I would like to ask whether the current Zotero Android app supports the installation of add-ons (plugins). If not, is there any plan or roadmap for enabling this in the future?
On the desktop version, I often rely on certain add-ons to improve my workflow, and I’m wondering if something similar will be possible on mobile.
@italonc: That's never going to happen. The desktop and mobile apps are built on completely different architectures and use completely different databases.
For those of you using the Zotero Android app, how is the general user experience? My main hesitation is the fear of corrupting my Zotero database, as I use WebDAV with a large collection of PDFs, EPUBs, and various annotations. Can the community confirm that the Android app is reliable and safe for the main database?
Been using it since the beta came out and it has been working great. Also things have stabilized a lot since the initial beta release. Lots of work has gone into the client.
Currently eagerly waiting for the M3 UI changes to show as a beta update.
I'm super-keen to try Zotero for Android on the Supernote Manta. (It has to be sideloaded on the Manta, but others seem to have reported success doing so, albeit with caveats regarding responsiveness with it being an e-ink display and all.) As I'd mostly be using Zotero on the Manta for reading, I was wondering how the progress on supporting EPUBs on the Android version is going? Most of my collection is PDFs, but it'd be nice to be able to access, read, and annotate the EPUBs I have as well.
Someone above appears to be alluding to e-ink optimisations. That sounds good as well, but I'm mindful that that use case is probably relatively niche even among Zotero users, and therefore probably not high up as a development priority. Besides, I'm not exactly sure what sort of optimisations developers would be aiming at when considering e-ink displays. For my part, I'd just like to be able to access and read everything, regardless of the type of display or device. And I'm fine dealing with the foibles that come with e-ink, so long as they don't radically compromise my ability to get work done within Zotero.
In any case, thanks for all your work! Great to see where Zotero is heading overall.
E-ink issues are mainly with handwritten annotations -- the pen has a delay on e-ink w/o optimization. There's also occasional weirdness with navigation on a Boox that several people have mentioned here, but I'm pretty sure that's Boox specific. I don't annotate heavily & find the android app very usable on a boox
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Two improvements that would be great in the future, especially for all of us, who use Zotero on an Eink Tablet:
- It would be awesome if there would be a paginated view for Web-Captures/Snapshots. Right now they are only scrollable. On a E-Ink Device, they would be easier to read with pagination though. Also, it would be awesome if we could highlight Web-Captures/Snapshots directly in the app.
- A high contrast mode for E-Ink devices would also be nice. On my Boox Go 10.3, the UI of the Zotero App looks way more pale than the UI of the native Boox-Interface. It would be cool if there was a In-App Setting to make the App look better on Eink-Screens.
Thanks for the explanation and for your hard work! Looking forward to the updates.
I would like to ask whether the current Zotero Android app supports the installation of add-ons (plugins). If not, is there any plan or roadmap for enabling this in the future?
On the desktop version, I often rely on certain add-ons to improve my workflow, and I’m wondering if something similar will be possible on mobile.
Thanks!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gHYwL7w2txG2yneTUiBxT2hDlIOHmyfh/view?usp=drivesdk.
Currently eagerly waiting for the M3 UI changes to show as a beta update.
Someone above appears to be alluding to e-ink optimisations. That sounds good as well, but I'm mindful that that use case is probably relatively niche even among Zotero users, and therefore probably not high up as a development priority. Besides, I'm not exactly sure what sort of optimisations developers would be aiming at when considering e-ink displays. For my part, I'd just like to be able to access and read everything, regardless of the type of display or device. And I'm fine dealing with the foibles that come with e-ink, so long as they don't radically compromise my ability to get work done within Zotero.
In any case, thanks for all your work! Great to see where Zotero is heading overall.