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Ash
Ash

Reputation: 11

How to find contents of a pdf when launched through button in andorid

I am new to Android. I have developed a small app which launches pdf files from Asset when a button is pressed.

public class Finish_Center extends AppCompatActivity {

PDFView Sample;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_Sample);
    Sample = (PDFView) findViewById(R.id.Sample);
    Sample.fromAsset("Book1.pdf").load();

This loads the pdf. But it does not enable me to search the content. There is no search icon in the launched pdf. Hence I am not able to use "find" option of pdf. As the pdf attached are big and used as reference I want to search content.

I tried keeping key pad visibility (To try (pressing Cntrl+F) but since there is no text view, Keypad is not visble.

Can someone suggest a method so that I will be able to search content in the pdf that is launched.

Regards,

Ashay

Upvotes: 1

Views: 79

Answers (1)

Andreas Violaris
Andreas Violaris

Reputation: 4178

Use the method indicated below, so that each user may open it using their device's default app (which will probably provide a search feature).

File book = new File("path/for/your/Book1.pdf");
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(Uri.fromFile(book), "application/pdf");
startActivity(intent);

Upvotes: 3

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