Android Question View a PDF

SoyDesarrollador

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Greetings, I have already read a lot on the subject that: in a webview can not display a PDF, some indicate that it can be done with a plugin or third party component, but no one explains how to do it. Could you tell me please, how to display a PDF in a webview (ok, I know that apparently you can not with a webview), but at least with a plugin, An example please,

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PDFium - Pdfview2

This is a wrap for a PDF-View which is based on PDFium. It is based on these two Github-Projects: Pdfium and Android PDF-View The PDF-View is based on Pdfium 1.9 The Library, resp. the Natives inside, are 64bit Compliant btw. It supports Horizontal and Vertical scrolling, Pagesnap. PDFium...
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SoyDesarrollador

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Excellent friend, thanks, I'll try it, just one doubt: apparently it reads the PDF from the device storage, that's fine, but: can you view the PDF from a url on the Internet without downloading it previously...?
 
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DonManfred

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SoyDesarrollador said:
: can you view the PDF from a url on the Internet without downloading it previously...?
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No. Download it. Then display it.

Your Question in #1 is answered.
For any new Question please create a new thread.
 
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