Viewing PDFs in Android...

[Terry Judd]

Hi Paul - it's not ideal, but you can hand the PDF off to Google Docs, which will render it in a browser compatible format. I don't have the url handy but will post it when I'm back at work tomorrow.

Terry...

On 18/06/2013, at 10:16 PM, "Paul Maguire" <me at paulmaguire.me> wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> My porting to Android saga continues - last chapter...
> 
> I've just identified that PDFs cannot be loaded into the browser native control in Android. This breaks my app quite badly. I see there is a workaround to:
> 
> launch URL http://blah.com/someFile.pdf
> 
> ... but this is going to cause the app to quit is it not? 
> 
> I'm a total Android hater at the moment. Anybody got any ideas on how to best proceed?
> 
> Kind regards,        Paul.
> 
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