What is the best method to show large multi line text in android app.

Question

Hi StackOverFlow Community, I am trying to create an android app in which i had to show the Syllabus of our college comprising of various branches,for which i had the data in PDF format of 100's of pages.Now what is the best way to display all the text for my users.I myself got some ideas but don't know how to implement them they are

• Opeaning the PDF's directly in my app(Coudn't understand how to do this any tutorials are welcomed.)
• Storing the text in a offline like a HTML format and opening them in webview(Don't know whether it's possible but heard we can do this.)
• Screen shots of each page and opeaning in an image viewer(Very hard task given that there are 100's of pages for a single branch and not so user friendly.)

Any other effective methods are welcomed along with tutorials as i am new here and any idea of implementing the first or second method also please.Sorry if i had said any thong wrong, Thank you.

Answer 1

Try this code for opening the pdf file.

public class MyPdfViewActivity extends Activity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    WebView mWebView=new WebView(MyPdfViewActivity.this);
    mWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    mWebView.getSettings().setPluginsEnabled(true);
    mWebView.loadUrl("https://docs.google.com/gview?      embedded=true&url="+LinkTo);
    setContentView(mWebView);
}
}

Answer 2

Use this Android-Pdf-Viewer-Library to open pdf in your android application and its also save your lots of time.