You need to learn Android first.
Your class needs to extend Activity class.
And iText can only create pdf file, viewing is not possible. Reading is possible. Use Adobe Acrobat or any other PDF tools in Android to view it.
Sample Solutions is as below for PDF Read and Write in Android
100% Working Code Screenshots as below,
activity_main.xml
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_gravity="center"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:textAlignment="center"
android:text="Android Read/Write File" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/fname"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="File Name"
android:text="sample_pdf_file" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/ftext"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="100px"
android:hint="File Text"
android:text="Hello World" />
<Button
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/btnwrite"
android:text="Write File" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/fnameread"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="File Name"
android:text="sample_pdf_file" />
<Button
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/btnread"
android:text="Read File" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/filecon" />
</LinearLayout>
FileOperations.java
package com.example.readwrite;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import android.util.Log;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.PdfReaderContentParser;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.SimpleTextExtractionStrategy;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.TextExtractionStrategy;
public class FileOperations {
public FileOperations() {
}
public Boolean write(String fname, String fcontent) {
try {
String fpath = "/sdcard/" + fname + ".pdf";
File file = new File(fpath);
// If file does not exists, then create it
if (!file.exists()) {
file.createNewFile();
}
// step 1
Document document = new Document();
// step 2
PdfWriter.getInstance(document,
new FileOutputStream(file.getAbsoluteFile()));
// step 3
document.open();
// step 4
document.add(new Paragraph("Hello World!"));
document.add(new Paragraph("Hello World2!"));
// step 5
document.close();
Log.d("Suceess", "Sucess");
return true;
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return false;
} catch (DocumentException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
return false;
}
}
public String read(String fname) {
BufferedReader br = null;
String response = null;
try {
StringBuffer output = new StringBuffer();
String fpath = "/sdcard/" + fname + ".pdf";
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(new FileInputStream(fpath));
PdfReaderContentParser parser = new PdfReaderContentParser(reader);
StringWriter strW = new StringWriter();
TextExtractionStrategy strategy;
for (int i = 1; i <= reader.getNumberOfPages(); i++) {
strategy = parser.processContent(i,
new SimpleTextExtractionStrategy());
strW.write(strategy.getResultantText());
}
response = strW.toString();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
return response;
}
}
MainActivity.java
package com.example.readwrite;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
EditText fname, fcontent, fnameread;
Button write, read;
TextView filecon;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
fname = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.fname);
fcontent = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.ftext);
fnameread = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.fnameread);
write = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnwrite);
read = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnread);
filecon = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.filecon);
write.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
String filename = fname.getText().toString();
String filecontent = fcontent.getText().toString();
FileOperations fop = new FileOperations();
fop.write(filename, filecontent);
if (fop.write(filename, filecontent)) {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
filename + ".pdf created", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
.show();
} else {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "I/O error",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}
});
read.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
String readfilename = fnameread.getText().toString();
FileOperations fop = new FileOperations();
String text = fop.read(readfilename);
if (text != null) {
filecon.setText(text);
} else {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "File not Found",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
filecon.setText(null);
}
}
});
}
}
AndroidManifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.readwrite"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="14"
android:targetSdkVersion="18" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
<activity
android:name="com.example.readwrite.MainActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
</manifest>
Make sure you have the itextpdf-5.5.1.jar in the right location as below,
