I have the childbrowser plugin installed and working on my Phonegap application. Works fine for websites but I want to instead view PDFs which have been stored in my assets file.
The link I have to the pdf is currently
Test
But when I do this it trys to navigate to
http://file://android_asset/pdf/Starting-Out_master.pdf
How can I change the link to view the prepackaged PDFs?
You cannot open a PDF using the ChildBrowser. You will need to use the PDF Viewer plugin. Here is a link, sorry that it is in Italian you'll have to use Google Translate or something similar.
http://www.giovesoft.com/2011/08/download-and-open-pdf-with-phonegap.html
Using the WebIntent plugin may also work. Most (but not all) Android phones come with a PDF viewer built-in, so letting the Android OS decide what application installed on the phone to handle the PDF file should work in most cases.
You could get the pdf file URI and open it with the childBrowser plugin's openExternal and let the native browser handle the PDF.
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I am developing an Android application using Cordova where I am required to display a PDF file in application.
I have tried using pdf.js from Mozilla and it worked only on browser and not in application. Same was the case with <embed></embed>.
I am not able to find any solution, please help me to solve this issue.
Thank you.
You cant Open PDF in cordova webview. Try Phonegap File Opener Plugin.
I am developing an web+cross platform app using Jquery Mobile+PhoneGap+Android. In web app, I am able to open pdf file links within my app page using iframe. But, in Phonegap generated Android build, iframe is unable to render pdf content,it is showing that iframe area as empty.How can I display the pdf file/content, whose src I know at runtime, within android webview. Thanks In Advance.
I've just published my plugin, which can open almost any type of file, which is stored locally on Android device.
Please take a look at: https://github.com/markeeftb/FileOpener
Plugin opens external application which handles the preview of the document.
I need open an PDF file that is in an url. I need open it with an PDF Viewer...
It is possible?
Thanks for all.
Best regards.
I suggest using the ChildBrowser plugin and using Google's viewer to actualy open the PDF (since Android doesn't have a default PDF viewer).
So you can open a PDF like this:
onclick='window.plugins.childBrowser.showWebPage(encodeURI("http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=' + pdfLink + '"));
in android (i don't know phonegap) there are many pdf viewer libraries.
like Android-Pdf-Viewer-Library
or Droid Text
or MuPDF
or APV Pdf Viewer
if you develope your application commercial and don't want to pay any money
use first one.
I have a website caching pdfs offline with a .manifest-file.
On the desktop version of Chrome the PDF can be viewed offline inside Chrome. But on the Android Chrome nothing happens when I'm trying to open the cached PDF. No error message, just nothing.
I'm guessing the android default pdf-reader can't find the cached pdf?
Anyone who knows how I can view the PDF in Android Chrome?
Thanks!
That's correct, browsers differ in terms of their built-in PDF support. One method you could explore is using Mozilla's pdf.js, which is a pdf reader built entirely in javascript that works just about everywhere. Make another web page that calls pdf.js and loads the PDF, and make sure all of that is in your cache manifest and you should be good to go.
I have an app where I've button on a webpage that is rendered inside a webview.
Now on click of button , a pdf file gets downloaded , and the same would then need to be opened inside the same webview.
attach a download listener to the web view and change the url as follows..
"https://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=https://www.example.com/xxxxxyyyyyxz.pdf"
example
https://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=https://www.adobe.com/support/products/enterprise/knowledgecenter/media/c4611_sample_explain.pdf
it's a link used to open pdf without downloading it...
I hope it solves your problem..
I've found that the google viewer seems to work within the android browser for viewing online PDF files. You could build a link to your pdf so that it is displayed in the viewer. I've not tried doing that within a WebView though.
UPDATE
The link is dead, there is an explanation of how to get the functionality to still work at this link.
In case this link also dies, here is the relevant section:
While the page is no longer available as it redirects to Google Docs/Drive, you can still use the Google Docs Viewer. Paste this URL in a new tab:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=
and then paste the address of the document you want to view online. Here's an example:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf
I do not think that the present android chrome based browser can support pdf. There are discussion about the same in android forums ( ex: link1 link2)
Your best bet to show pdf is to have adobe pdf reader for android installed.(or concisely put, not possible in web view)
I don't think any browser other than Chrome supports rendering PDFs without a plugin or third party tool. It's probably easier to let the user use his own app to open PDFs.
I used the IText PDF library mentioned in this thread
Android : Is there any free PDF library for Android for a sample project. You could try getting using this API to get the PDF page as an image. I am not familiar with every aspect of Itext so it might have better way to do this.