Android - Load PDF inside webview

Question

I have this webview code and I want to make it possible to have the PDF files opened when a user clicks on a PDF link. Here is the code, can you tell me what I have to put

Answer 1

I was trying to handle this exact same scenario. The solution I came up with is below.

public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            String cleanUrl = url;
            if (url.contains("?")) {
                // remove the query string
                cleanUrl = url.substring(0,url.indexOf("?"));
            }

            if (cleanUrl.endsWith("pdf")) {

                try {
                    Uri uriUrl = Uri.parse(cleanUrl);
                    Intent intentUrl = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uriUrl);
                    startActivity(intentUrl);
                    return true;

                } catch (Exception e) {
                    System.out.println(e);
                    Toast.makeText(context,"No PDF Viewer Installed", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                }
            }

            return false;
        }

I needed to make sure it would handle pdf links, even if there was a query string. Still a bit hacky as the cleanUrl needs to end in "pdf", but so long as that is true, this should work. If you're serving up pdf's through a php script or something, you might want to dig a little deeper, handle things based on MIME type or something.