Display PDF file inside my android application

Question

I cannot figure out how to show a PDF file inside an Android application. So far I\'ve found out that it is possible to launch an Intent and open the PDF using

Answer 1

you can use webview to show the pdf inside an application , for that you have to :

1. convert the pdf to html file and store it in asset folder
2. load the html file to the web view ,

Many pdf to html online converter available.

Example:

    consent_web = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.consentweb);
    consent_web.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
    consent_web.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
    consent_web.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/spacs_html.html");

Answer 2

Highly recommend you check out PDF.js which is able to render PDF documents in a standard a WebView component.

Also see https://github.com/loosemoose/androidpdf for a sample implementation of this.