can we render pdf and show it on web view in android. kindly help me out
Yes you can load PDF in Webview using Google's gview, It is a trick.
Here you can have my solution for the same trick: Android - Load PDF / PDF Viewer.
You cant open PDF file directly in android web browser but using Google Docs Viewer. you can open it in android Browser like:
String webUrl="http://myweb.com/demo.pdf";
mWebView.loadUrl("https://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url="+ webUrl);
Unluckily, Google has changed the api... When you try to load the docs.google.com/gview url, the web view is redirect to the new drive.google.com/viewerng that can't render the pdf in the Android WebView...
Any other clever solution? :D
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I want to load PDF in WebView from the URL.
I have used Google Doc. viewer using "http://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?embedded=true&url=" this link followed by PDF url.
But it cannot load the PDF which size is more that 1MB, and
I want to show PDF in application only, not in other PDF Viewer application.
Can you suggest me how I can achieve this task.
Thanks in advance.
The only free solution I know is to use this API (21 and newer):
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/pdf/PdfRenderer.html
In my web-view I have a PDF forum If user makes any changes That will be added to PDF
But Here I am Unable to View That PDF In Webview
I have Tried with http://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?embedded=true&url=
But Its Opening My web page source Code... Only Half a part of my Webpage is PDF.. And renaming Is text-box etc..
like below
Here Pdf is showing in browser but not in my Web-view
Can any one help me I need to Show PDF and Add some changes all this in web-view please help me...
Update
In my webpage I am getting Pdf as a part of it not entire page as pdf is here its not working with http://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?embedded=true&url=
If I open My Web page in that url I am getting source code of my web page... Please help
Update 1
Here In the above Image...... PDF is not loading in webview only web page is loading but where as a in browser its loading Please help
The other GOOGLE-url.
Have you tried this suffix https://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=YOURURL ?
Are you redirecting to drive intentionally? You have to pass the correct .pdf url
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=yoururl.pdf
This way, you can see the PDF inside your webview.
String pdfURL = "http://www.expertagent.co.uk/asp/in4glestates/{16D968D6198E-4E33-88F4-8A85731CE605}/{05c36123-4df0-4d7d-811c-8b6686fdd526}/external.pdf";
webView.loadUrl("http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=" + pdfURL);
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 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.
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.