Question

I’m new to android and have been stuck on this problem for a long time…

I have an activity that loads a web view. In this web view it displays a pdf via googles online document viewer. This all works perfectly.

Below the Web View I have a download button(To download the pdf to the sd card).
But the problem is, it is not downloading. Nothing seems to be happening.
The progress Dialog appears for a few seconds, stays at 0% and then disappears.

Any help on how to get the file downloading would be very much appreciated.
Thanks

PS the link to the file is not .zip/.rar it is just a typical url ending in .pdf

public class ExamViewActivity extends Activity {

    private static final int DIALOG_DOWNLOAD_PROGRESS = 0;
    private Button downloadButton;
    private ProgressDialog mProgressDialog;
    private String pdf;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.exam_paper_view);

        //retrieve data(pdf link) from previous activity
        Bundle b = getIntent().getExtras();
        pdf = b.getString("pdf");

        //webview
        WebView webview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.google_webview);
        webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); 
        webview.loadUrl("http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=" + pdf);



        //download button
        downloadButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.download_button);

        downloadButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                startDownload();
            }
        });
    }

    //start download process
    private void startDownload() {
        String url = pdf;
        Log.d("MyLog","url = " + pdf);
        new DownloadFileAsync().execute(url);
    }

    //create progress bar dialog
    @Override
    //On Create Dialog
    protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
        switch (id) {
            case DIALOG_DOWNLOAD_PROGRESS:
                mProgressDialog = new ProgressDialog(this);
                mProgressDialog.setMessage("Downloading file..");
                mProgressDialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_HORIZONTAL);
                mProgressDialog.setCancelable(false);
                mProgressDialog.show();
                return mProgressDialog;
            default:
                return null;
        }
    }
    class DownloadFileAsync extends AsyncTask<String, String, String> {

        @Override
        //On Pre Execute
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            super.onPreExecute();
            showDialog(DIALOG_DOWNLOAD_PROGRESS);
        }

        @Override
        //Do In Background
        protected String doInBackground(String... aurl) {
            int count;

            try {
                URL url = new URL(aurl[0]);
                URLConnection conexion = url.openConnection();
                conexion.connect();

                int lenghtOfFile = conexion.getContentLength();
                Log.d("ANDRO_ASYNC", "Lenght of file: " + lenghtOfFile);

                InputStream input = new BufferedInputStream(url.openStream());
                OutputStream output = new FileOutputStream("/sdcard/"+pdf);

                byte data[] = new byte[1024];

                long total = 0;

                while ((count = input.read(data)) != -1) {
                    total += count;
                    publishProgress(""+(int)((total*100)/lenghtOfFile));
                    output.write(data, 0, count);
                }

                output.flush();
                output.close();
                input.close();
            } catch (Exception e) {}
            return null;

        }
        //On progress update
        protected void onProgressUpdate(String... progress) {
             Log.d("ANDRO_ASYNC",progress[0]);
             mProgressDialog.setProgress(Integer.parseInt(progress[0]));
        }

        @Override
        //On post execute
        protected void onPostExecute(String unused) {
            dismissDialog(DIALOG_DOWNLOAD_PROGRESS);
        }
}

Answer 1

OK,

Instead of using AsyncTask to download the file and show its progress.
I have compromised(for the moment), by using the ACTION_VIEW intent to download the file.

//download button
    downloadButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.download_button);

    downloadButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            Intent downloadIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(pdf));
            startActivity(downloadIntent);
        }
    });

All I need to do now is to find a way to store the files in different folders. But for now, this will have to do.
Just said I’d offer this alternative incase someone else was having the same problem.