PDF Viewer Widget in Android

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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)?

refer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4592384/custom-pdf-viewer-in-android — Labeeb Panampullan, Feb 17 '11 at 09:32
@Labeeb: I saw that post also tried the link given in that but it provides only the APK file. — Mudassir, Feb 17 '11 at 09:48

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 30 '13 at 18:26

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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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answered Mar 10 '11 at 09:01

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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This has already been covered at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4665957/pdf-parsing-library-for-android

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answered Feb 17 '11 at 08:25

Al Sutton

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 28 '12 at 02:43

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Another solution would be to use a WebView, but then use the pdf.js library to display a given pdf file. I doubt this would look very nice on a small mobile device since it's designed for desktop browsers, but its worth a try.

pdf.js website and demo

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Thanks dear. I'll surely give it a try. – Mudassir Aug 28 '12 at 03:28

PDF Viewer Widget in Android

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