Question

I’m trying to Downloading pdf from server and displaying it as it is.

I tried the following code snippet but it’s giving me error as shown below.

I’m not able to understand why it’s giving No Activity found to handle Intent exception.

I’m new to android so any help appreciated…

onCreate() snippet

String extStorageDirectory = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString();
    File folder = new File(extStorageDirectory, "pdf");
    folder.mkdir();
    File file = new File(folder, "Read.pdf");
    try {
        file.createNewFile();
    } catch (IOException e1) {
        e1.printStackTrace();
    }
    Downloader.DownloadFile(
            "http://www.nmu.ac.in/ejournals/aspx/courselist.pdf", file);

    File file1 = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()
            + "/pdf/Read.pdf");
    PackageManager packageManager = getPackageManager();
    Intent testIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    testIntent.setType("application/pdf");
    @SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unused" })
    List list = packageManager.queryIntentActivities(testIntent,
            PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY);
    Intent intent = new Intent();
    intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(file1);
    intent.setDataAndType(uri, "application/pdf");
    startActivity(intent);

Logcat

FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.pdftest/com.pdftest.PDFFromServerExample}: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=file:///mnt/sdcard/pdf/Read.pdf typ=application/pdf }
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=file:///mnt/sdcard/pdf/Read.pdf typ=application/pdf }
at android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java:1408)
at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1378)
at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:2817)
at android.app.Activity.startActivity(Activity.java:2923)
at com.pdftest.PDFFromServerExample.onCreate(PDFFromServerExample.java:44)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)

Answer 1

Android doesn’t provider any inbuilt Application that reads the PDF content. So, in your case you are doing as

typ=application/pdf

But there is no Application that reads or knows what this refers to. So, you have to install PDF reader which may me any that tries to link up typ=application/pdf and passes it to that Application to read the PDF.