Open a pdf file inside a webview.

Question

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 t

Answer 1

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