Xamarin.forms display PDF in webview not working

Question

I download a pdf stream from my server. In my app I save the bytearray to a the local folder as pdf. But when I open it in the webview, it just shows a white page.

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Answer 1

Following approach will allow you to view pdf in xamarin forms. If you are trying to open one from azure blob or you have valid URl.

WebView webView = new WebView();
var page = new ContentPage();
webView.Source = "https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://yourpdfurl.pdf";
page.Content = webView;
Navigation.PushModalAsync(page);