iBibTeX 4+

UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO

Designed for iPhone

    • 1.0 • 6 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

iBibTeX is a reader app for your .BIB files stored on Google Drive.

iBibTeX features:
- login into your Google Drive account, and iBibTeX will scout your drive for .BIB files;
- see all your .BIB files, and browse them in an easy to read list, ordering by year, author, title, location and type of reference, and filtering by text;
- click on any reference for a comprehensive list of fields;
- users of BibDesk on MacOS with active AutoFile of PDF papers in a Google Drive folder can also browse PDFs linked to a reference.

How to use it:
- open the application (yes, you really have to do it!)
- in 'Google Drive' tab, click on "Change Account" and login with your credentials;
- if you use BibDesk on MacOS, click on 'Select Folder', and chose the folder in which your BibDesk PDF files are auto filed;
- in 'File Browser' tab, a list of your .BIB file should now show (in case, press 'Refresh');
- you can add a .BIB file to your favourites pressing the + button near the file name
- you can delete a file from favourites by sliding on its name, and then press 'Delete'
- if you click on a reference, a window will open with a list of all the BibTeX fields
- on top of the fields view, one or more PDF buttons will open the linked PDFs

Please note:
- iBibTeX does not edit your file, is a read-only affair;
- there is no plan to extend iBibTeX to other cloud services, as our University runs on Google infrastructure. Anyone willing to contribute is welcome, and we are more than happy to share the code;
- BibDesk integration is a bit of an hit and miss at the moment, as the field BibDesk uses to store information about the attached PDFs is private. It usually works if you use auto filing and file papers in fixed location (in BibDesk go to Preferences/AutoFile to set up auto filing). The fixed location should also be on the same Google Drive in which the .BIB files are.

Release Notes:
- 1.00 Initial Release
- 1.01 Bug Fixing

What’s New

Version 1.01

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Bug Fixing

Ratings and Reviews

1.0 out of 5
6 Ratings

6 Ratings

MacThinker ,

Does not work at all

The app’s reliance on Google Drive renders it useless. Whenever I open it, I get this message from Google:

This user-agent is not permitted to make an OAuth authorization request to Google as it is classified as an embedded user-agent (also known as a web-view). Per our policy, only browsers are permitted to make authorization requests to Google. We offer several libraries and samples for native apps to perform authorization requests in the browser.

There is no way to move beyond this screen. It’s too bad: at this point there is no iOS analogue to BibDesk on Mac, so I was thrilled when I found this app. However, since it is essentially useless, .bib files still cannot be viewed in any useful way on iOS devices — at least in the US. The market gap is actually pretty shocking. I wish iBibTeX had been the solution.

onekote ,

Google No longer allows in app oauth login

So . . . It won’t work from the start as it tried to use it to login and is stopped dead.

ChurchOrganist ,

Application will not open for use

As soon as the app opens, there is an error from Google:

403. That’s an error.

Error: disallowed_useragent

Cannot do anything after that except to close the app.

App Privacy

The developer, UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple.

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