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Rajesh Panchal
Rajesh Panchal

Reputation: 1170

Load PDF file in webview

I am having webview in my app, i am loading website in my webview and in that website there are multiple links of PDF file but while i am clicking on that it is not opening in webview, if i am checking it in my windows's browser it opening. i have enabled javascript but no luck, i used following properties also

webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
webView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
webView.setWebViewClient(new myWebClient());

Upvotes: 3

Views: 14903

Answers (3)

Ashish Kapoor
Ashish Kapoor

Reputation: 121

Whenever you want to open pdf saved in google drive this code can be used 

     WebView view=(WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView);
     view.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
     String url=getIntent().toString("value1");
     String URL="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url="+url; 
     view.loadUrl(Url);

Upvotes: 1

MdDroidd
MdDroidd

Reputation: 76

this may help you,

String myPdfUrl = "http://example.com/awesome.pdf";
String url = "http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=" + myPdfUrl;
Log.i(TAG, "Opening PDF: " + url);
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); 
webView.loadUrl(url);

Upvotes: 1

FD_
FD_

Reputation: 12919

Android does not work like iOS in this respect. The WebView widget cannot display PDF documents on Android.

You will have to:

  • Use a third party library (unfortunately, most open source pdf libs are GPL)

  • Open a pdf viewer app via an Intent

  • Use Google docs in a webview

Upvotes: 3

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