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Whoops! There was a ...previewing this pdf document 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);

View pdf file from laptop to android

I'm working on an application to view pdf files.
I have done viewing pdf files from the internet using the docs.google api. I want to try to make my laptop as the server or where the pdf file is located.
WebView webView=(WebView)this.findViewById(R.id.webView1);
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true);
webView.loadUrl("https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2F10.0.2.2%2Fdrayber_beep%2FAndroid13Web.pdf");
The docs.google api cannot find the location, but when I try to click the download link given by the api, I was able to download it in the emulator and view it using a pdf reader.
Am I missing something? I would really appreciate your help. thanks

The url postet into a browser returns an Bad Request - Error.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2F10.0.2.2%2Fdrayber%2Handbook.pdf

Viewing PDF from URL using Adobe in Android

I'm just learning Android code and I've come upon a problem which I hope you can all help.
I want to display a PDF file from a URL from my application, I've got the PDF to display using a webView method however with having Adobe Reader and Polaris Office installed on my phone I was just wondering if I can load the URL and implement the PDF to be displayed using installed software?
My webView code is as follows:
WebView web = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView);
web.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
String pdf = "http://www.example-site.co.uk/pdf";
web.loadUrl("http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=" + pdf);
I have searched several posts on here to no avail so any help will be much appreciated.

Searching for "pdf view intent" reveals stuff like that: How to render PDF in Android
If that doesn't help, you should try to implement a IntentChooser or directly ask the devs of your two apps on which intent they are listening.

PdfReader in Android

I have to develop an application which reads pdf file in pdf format and only pdf file should be read in the application.I wanted to know one more thing is it possible to use itext.jar for
the android application.

Developing an PDF reader for Android is not really simple, so I suggest you read this PDF file online by Google Docs Reader
WebView webview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
String pdf = "http://www.example.com/example.pdf";//url to pdf file
webview.loadUrl("http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=" + pdf);
This may not be the thing you want, but still hope it helps you someday.
However some Android PDF APIs are http://code.google.com/p/android-pdf/source/browse/#svn/trunk/src/org/broncho/pdfreader and http://andpdf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/andpdf/trunk/AndroidPdfViewer/src/com/sun/
You can also look at an SO discussion on the same problem Android PDF reader from scratch

You can use one of the opensource PDF readers (eg: XPDF) and compile it for Android.

Android - Load PDF / PDF Viewer

I want to display pdf contents on webview.
Here is my code:
WebView webview = new WebView(this);
setContentView(webview);
webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webview.loadUrl("URL/Demo_PDF.pdf");
Problem:
When i am trying to run the application, at that time I am getting blank screen.
And also, if there is any PDF viewer then also suggest me !!
FYI, I have already set internet permission.

Finally, i got a solution, actually i made a trick to load a pdf file using Google Docs inside a webview:
webview.loadUrl("http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=http://myurl.com/demo.pdf");

I'm sorry but WebView does not display PDF content.
What you might want is a PDF viewer that responds to the PDF MIME type.
Here are a couple of free open-source libraries you might want to check:
droidreader
apv pdf reader

You can try using mupdf (www.mupdf.com)
You can build a native code library (libmupdf.so) to be loaded onto your android project using the ndk.
This would ensure a lot faster rendering of pdf files...
check out the project at : http://mupdf.com/repos/mupdf/android/

WebView does not have a PDF plugin. You should store the PDF locally and open an intent for viewing that kind of content.