Read PDF File in Assets folder through PdfRenderer without creating tempfile

Question

I have a pdf file in Assets folder and would like to open it up. I need to create a File as below in order to set as a ParcelFileDescriptor to pass to the PdfRenderer.

    private val pdfRenderer by lazy {
        val file = File(cacheDir, "tempFile")
        file.outputStream().use { fileOut -> 
            assets.open("TestPdf.pdf").copyTo(fileOut)
        }
        val fileDescriptor = ParcelFileDescriptor.open(file, ParcelFileDescriptor.MODE_READ_ONLY)
        PdfRenderer(fileDescriptor)
    }

This seems lame, as I need to create the temp file, even though I have the physical file in my Assets Folder. Is there a way to skip creating the temp file in cache?

Extra info: I tried using the below

    private val pdfRenderer by lazy {
        PdfRenderer(assets.openFd("TestPdf.pdf").parcelFileDescriptor)
    }

But I got this error Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: This file can not be opened as a file descriptor; it is probably compressed.

I put this in build.gradle

    aaptOptions {
        noCompress "pdf"
    }

And got this error Caused by: java.io.IOException: file not in PDF format or corrupted