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Asked: 2026-05-26T07:37:35+00:00

i want to create an android application in which i have to run ppt

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i want to create an android application in which i have to run ppt which will be present in sdcard. So far i have got to know that the only way to run the ppt is either calling different applications which deal with this or embed that in webview.
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  1. Editorial Team

    You cannot embed ppt, doc, excel etc in a Webview in android. Those are MS Office formats. You cannot even do that on a desktop pc with firefox/chrome.

    EDIT
    If the ppt is online you can use google docs to convert your document to html and than display it:

    webview.loadUrl("http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=http://myurl.com/mySlide.ppt");

    If the ppt is on SD card, either:
    a) Open it with default phone application. See How to use an intent to open a ppt with DataViz's Documents To Go
    b) you need to convert it to html beforehand. There are many online/offline tools for that. Google “ppt to html converter”

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