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brayson_john
brayson_john

Reputation: 803

Open DOC, DOCX, PPT, PDF inside flutter app

How do i open DOC, DOCX, PPT, PDF inside my flutter app. I dont want to open from outside(oter apps). I want to preview the files if possible as a child in my widgets. I tried the following packages:

flutter_filereader: rejected by playstore(Uses Tencent X5) PDFTron: Very huge, some PPT file open blank, opens in a separate screen not inside widgets.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3253

Answers (1)

Faiizii Awan
Faiizii Awan

Reputation: 1710

use webview_flutter to open web url in WebView widget. as

var yourLink = 'http://www.africau.edu/images/default/sample.pdf';

WebView(
  initialUrl: 'https://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=$yourLink',
);

if your file is from local replace yourLink with localPath.

Upvotes: 3

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