Hello,
I have been seeing many people asking for external readers, and I absolutely, am one of them. I love Mendeley as a library organizer, where I can put all informations, including PDF, and at end, I can generate a bibtex file. It's awesome. But for reader, I believe that eachone has him favorite reader, and you won't improve your reader with all advantage existing in all PDF readers. For exemple, on Android, I prefer swap pages to side instead roll down; I use the noturn mode of Adobe reader; and if you ask, each one will have his own preferences.
I know that Android App has a way to open PDF on external reader (it is broken by now, but there are other calls on suport about it), but it doesn't work appropriately.
My sugestion is: provide a configuration to change default reader and, when I tap on a PDF, open with this default reader. (the long tap on blue icon can stay there); When a PDF is changed (annotations), sync it up with the mendeley server (If you can't determine if pdf was changed, you can provide a manual sync that send the PDF instead redownload it); And finally, If you can read the annotations of PDF to show on Mendeley (like is today) will be good, else, you can warning that external readers don't provide this function.
I hope you think about and consider the user preferences to reader. As I said, there are many users asking about external readers. You can make a votation to confirm it.
Thank you.
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