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How to open documents located in Local Storage in android using WebView?

I have a doc/ppt/xls file located in my sd card. I want to open it without any third party app (i.e within my app itself) using webview. Though I am able to open documents by embedding it in google docs url like -
http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=[filelinkHere]
But how to open a file located in internal or external storage in webview ?
Also, Suggest me any third party ALL-IN-ONE library for android to view all types of documents. I have tried ASPOS but it has few unresolved bugs and APACHE-POI is difficult to use.

I had the same issue few days ago .
i found Android PdfViewer best to view PDF files and Android PdfMyXml best to create pdf files in android.
For working with Word and Excel as a most reliable answer I suggest you to take a look at OliveDocLibrary .
If your documents are in cloud so there is an alternative way to display docx,pptx,pdf and such formats with a combination of Webview and googleDoc.
You might find other possible solutions in server-side machines or maybe a creative way!
Hope it help

You can integrate some library project to your project with which you can open the pdf file inside your app.
Reference :
https://github.com/tekinarslan/AndroidPdfViewer
https://github.com/JoanZapata/android-pdfview

Read the contents of the PDF file onto a webView

In my project I have to load the contents of a PDF located in the assets folder onto a WebView.Can It be achieved directly just by reading the contents onto a WebView.. I googled a lot and I found that i need to use third party PDF readers to achieve the same?
If so, Plz give me the links of the source of the PDF reader of GITHUB. Am not able to find it..

If you load pdf inside the webview, unicode text type or images wont be visible. So you want
to go for OCR tool.
Use set of libraries and sdk
This might help you
http://www.qoppa.com/android/pdfsdk/
http://code.google.com/p/droidreader/

mupdf is the best library in terms of performance and all i have found till now, you can also use it in your application.
But it needs knowledge of ndk.
Click here for more description

Viewing PDF in Android / Chrome

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.

How can I change the way the google docs website displays a PDF in Android?

I am using the following link inside a WebView to show a pdf file in my android application:
http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=http://174.136.1.35/dev/android/1_android-Survey-Report-for-pdf-1200-x-768.pdf
This works, and displays the PDF, as you can see in the attached images. The problem I have is that
I want to disable the zoom controls, and the desktop and download
links.
Is this possible, and if so, how?

You are basically opening a web view and loading it with a webpage from the internet, specifically Google Docs. Without some special functionality built into the website, there isn't going to be way to get rid of the extra buttons, links, and labels you're seeing. Instead of this, you could download the PDF that your link is pointing to as a PDF and try to display that directly. There is a stack overflow question on this topic

Open a pdf file inside a webview.

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.