PDF Viewer Widget in Android

android pdf widget viewer
Mudassir picture Mudassir · Feb 17, 2011 · Viewed 8.5k times · Source

I have to provide the functionality of showing PDF docs in my app without using any external PDF viewer. I know Android doesn't have such kind of widget and WebView can't load a PDF doc.

So I want to know, is there any widget available which can be used to show the PDF docs in Activity (like WebView is used to show web pages)?

Answer

Chromium picture Chromium · Mar 10, 2011

As I know, there is no such 'off-the-shelf' solution available for Android yet. You can of course download any third party PDF viewer's code and modify it as per your needs. Some of the Open source PDF viewers:

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