Question

I am working on app in which I need to open a pdf in a google doc with the help of a URL provided. I am using Web view for this. its working fine on all OS like 2.2., that I have tested but its not working on Android OS 4.1 device of my client.

if(NetworkAvailablity.checkNetworkStatus(ShowPdfInWebView.this))
        {
            WebView webview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.pdf_webview);

            String pdfURL=this.getIntent().getExtras().getString("PDFURL");
            webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); 
            webview.loadUrl("http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=" + pdfURL);


        }

I am using this code.

Please let me know, if it requires some different logic’s.

Answer 1

There is a nice trick to do that… you can use google docs to open your pdf in a WebView:

webview.loadUrl("http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=http://yoururl.com/yourpdf.pdf");