How to render a PDF file in Android

Question

Android does not have PDF support in its libraries. Is there any way to render PDF files in the Android applications?

Answer 1

I finally was able to modify butelo's code to open any PDF file in the Android filesystem using pdf.js. The code can be found on my GitHub

What I did was modified the pdffile.js to read HTML argument file like this:

var url = getURLParameter('file');

function getURLParameter(name) {
return decodeURIComponent((new RegExp('[?|&]' + name + '=' + '([^&;]+?)(&|#|;|$)').exec(location.search)||[,""])[1].replace(/\+/g, '%20'))||null}

So what you need to do is just append the file path after the index.html like this:

Uri path = Uri.parse(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString() + "/data/test.pdf");
webView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/pdfviewer/index.html?file=" + path);

Update the path variable to point to a valid PDF in the Adroid filesystem.