Viewing PDFs in Android...

[Paul Maguire]

Cool - ta. 

On 19 Jun 2013, at 00:29, Terry Judd <terry.judd at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> OK - for this to work the PDF has to be stored online - it doesn't appear to work with local (file) urls.
> 
> Anyway, all you need to do is construct a URL based on the URL for your PDF and the correct Google Docs URL. Something like this...
> 
> put "http://mydomain.com/myfile.pdf" into tPDF
> put ("http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url="&tPDF) into tURL
> 
> ...then set the URL of the browser control.
> 
> The result isn't perfect, and the download link that is included on the displayed page won't work, but at least you can view the contents of the PDF.
> 
> Terry...
> 
> 
> On 18/06/2013, at 10:49 PM, Terry Judd wrote:
> 
>> 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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