In my android, I have Adobe PDF reader installed. Now what I am trying to do is that when my PDF is downloaded and show PDF is clicked I am trying to open the PDF in Adobe PDF reader.
Following is the Intent but no option on Adobe PDF Reader Comes:
public String showPdf(String fileName) {
File file = new File(fileName);
Log.i("PdfViewer", "open file "+ fileName);
// if (file.exists()) {
Log.i("PdfViewer", "file exist");
try {
Uri path = Uri.fromFile(file);
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(path, "application/pdf");
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
//intent.setData(Uri.parse(fileName));
this.ctx.startActivity(intent);
return "";
} catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException e) {
System.out.println("PdfViewer: Error loading url "+fileName+":"+ e.toString());
return e.toString();
}
Can you please suggest an intent to use?
Thanks,
Ankit.
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URL url = null;
try {
url = new URL("http://www.cbu.edu.zm/downloads/pdf-sample.pdf");
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
String tDir = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");
String path = tDir + "tmp" + ".pdf";
File file = new File(path); file.deleteOnExit();
try {
FileUtils.copyURLToFile(url, file);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Intent printIntent = new Intent(MainActivity.this,
PrintDialogActivity.class);
printIntent.setDataAndType(Uri.fromFile(file),
"application/pdf");
printIntent.putExtra("title", "Android print demo");
startActivity(printIntent);
I try to open a PDF in my application.
First, I create the PDF like that :
String filename = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString()+"/mypdf.pdf";
File file = new File(filename);
try {
FileOutputStream bos = new FileOutputStream(file);
bos.write(Base64.decode(base64, 0));
bos.flush();
bos.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e(TAG, "IOError with PDF");
e.printStackTrace();
}
Intent intent = new Intent(this, PdfActivity.class);
intent.putExtra("file", filename);
startActivity(intent);
The file is well created and readable, I can open this with ESExplorer application.
This file is located in /storage/emulated/0/myfile.pdf
in the PdfActivity I try to open the PDF :
Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
String url = extras.getString("file");
File file = new File(url);
try {
if (file.exists()) {
Uri path = Uri.parse(url);
Intent objIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
objIntent.setDataAndType(path, "application/pdf");
objIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
startActivity(objIntent);
} else {
Toast.makeText(this, "File NotFound", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
} catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
Toast.makeText(this, "No Viewer Application Found", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
file.exists() return true, Intent start, but my PDF reader says : "File not found"
I've added read and write permissions on external storage.
Does someone have any idea why it can't access to my file ?
objIntent.setDataAndType(url, "application/pdf");
use above line in your second snippest also declare String url as a global variable hope it will help you if it will not work try to use hardcode value of file path and see is it working or not ?
and are you sure file is exist? check this scenario tooo :)
I found the solution.
I've replace the Uri like that:
Uri path = Uri.fromFile(file);
And it works!
How can i open a PDFs file from raw folder?
This code for access PDFs file from SD card..
File file = new File(getFilesDir(), "teen_ebook.pdf");
try {
if (file.exists()) {
Uri path = Uri.fromFile(file);
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(path, "application/pdf");
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
startActivity(intent);
Log.e("IR", "No exception");
}
else {
Toast.makeText(PdfActivity.this, "File NotFound",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}
catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
Toast.makeText(PdfActivity.this, "No Application Available to View PDF", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
But i want to access PDFs file from raw folder?
Any one here. Please suggests me.
You can not directly open PDF file from the raw folder. It requires PDFViewer application to open PDF file.
You will have to copy your PDF file into sdcard and then you can open to read it.
public void openPDF(){
copyFile(getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.hello_world);
, new FileOutputStream(new File(getFilesDir(), "yourPath/teen_ebook.pdf")));
File pdfFile = new File(getFilesDir(), "yourPath/teen_ebook.pdf");
Uri path = Uri.fromFile(pdfFile);
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
intent.setDataAndType(path, "application/pdf");
startActivity(intent);
}
private void copyFile(InputStream in, OutputStream out) throws IOException {
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int read;
while((read = in.read(buffer)) != -1){
out.write(buffer, 0, read);
}
}
I created a class openPDF which takes a byte array as input and displays the PDF file with Adobe Reader. Code:
private void openPDF(byte[] PDFByteArray) {
try {
// create temp file that will hold byte array
File tempPDF = File.createTempFile("temp", ".pdf", getCacheDir());
tempPDF.deleteOnExit();
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(tempPDF);
fos.write(PDFByteArray);
fos.close();
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(tempPDF);
intent.setDataAndType(uri, "application/pdf");
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
startActivity(intent);
} catch (IOException ex) {
String s = ex.toString();
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
When I pass the intend , the error from adobe reader is "Invalid file path". I read all other posts related to downloading and viewing PDF in android but dint help much. Any suggestions?
I think the issue is that other apps have no access to the files in your app's private data area (like the cache dir).
Candidate solutions:
changing the file's mode to MODE_WORLD_READABLE so that it can be read by other apps
...
String fn = "temp.pdf";
Context c = v.getContext();
FileOutputStream fos = null;
try {
fos = c.openFileOutput(fn, Context.MODE_WORLD_READABLE);
fos.write(PDFByteArray);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// do something
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (fos!=null) {
try {
fos.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
String filename = c.getFilesDir() + File.separator + fn;
File file = new File(filename);
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(file);
intent.setDataAndType(uri, "application/pdf");
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
startActivity(intent);
...
or write the pdf file to the /sdcard partition.
you can use android.os.Environment API to get the path, and remember to add the permission to your app's AndroidManifest.xml file.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
Regards
Ziteng Chen
I made this code to open an especific .pdf file existing in Dowloads folder with Adobe's application
File folder = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "Download");
File pdf = new File(folder, "Test.pdf");
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(pdf);
PackageManager pm = getPackageManager();
Intent intent = pm.getLaunchIntentForPackage("com.adobe.reader");
intent.setDataAndType(uri, "application/pdf");
startActivity(intent);
It works for me. So i guess your problem can be the temprorary file. Try to write the file to sdcard. To do this you will need add android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE to your AndroidManifest.xml.
my app downlods a pdf file from a link saving it to SD card, and it's working fine.. but what I'm struggeling at is I couldn't let my app views the pdf file..( although I've installed PDF viewer on my emulator)nothing happens after downloading the file...
here's my code for openning the pdf file
InputStream input = new BufferedInputStream(url.openStream());
File sdCard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
File dir = new File(sdCard.getAbsolutePath()
+ "/myapp/download");
dir.mkdirs();
File file = new File(dir, "application/pdf");
FileOutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(file);
Use below code to open pdf file.
File pdfFile = new File("/mnt/sdcard/path_to_file/yourpdf.pdf");
if(pdfFile.exists()) {
Uri path = Uri.fromFile(pdfFile);
Intent pdfIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
pdfIntent.setDataAndType(path, "application/pdf");
pdfIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
try {
startActivity(pdfIntent);
} catch(ActivityNotFoundException e) {
Toast.makeText(yourActivityClass.this, "No Application available to view pdf", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
} else {
Toast.makeText(yourActivityClass.this, "File not found", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
yourActivityClass.this is application context make it correct while testing above code.