Whoops! There was a ...previewing this pdf document android - android

My application has a list of pdf inside listview. The pdf is viewed inside the application using a webview that open a Google Docs sheet. It works fine for the first opened PDF, but
when going back and opening another PDF I got the error "whoops! There was a problem previewing this document". Is there some kind of limitation on opening PDF using google sheet. If so, how can I get full rights to open any PDF I want. can someone help please. Here is my code.
//---you need this to prevent the webview from
// launching another browser when a url
// redirection occurs---
wv.setWebViewClient(new Callback());
wv.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
wv.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
wv.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true);
wv.loadUrl("https://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=" + SharepreferenceController.getPrefSavePdfInfo());

Try increasing the Version/Compatibility of the PDF. This worked for me.
Edit: I believe it is more of a size issue. When I changed the Version (from Acrobat 9.0 to 10.0) I had also optimized the PDF making it a smaller file. My larger files of the same Version still do not work.

I was having the same issue. What solved it for me was clearing the WebView cache before trying to load another PDF.
WebView webView=(WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView);
webView.clearCache(true);
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.loadUrl("https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=" + url);

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i want to view pdf file from internet..can anyone tell me how can i view??
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check out the project at : http://mupdf.com/repos/mupdf/android/
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