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Asked: 2026-06-11T13:24:20+00:00

We are going to develop a mobile app (iOS and Android), which should provide

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We are going to develop a mobile app (iOS and Android), which should provide downloading and storing several user-selected PDF files and viewing them within the app (iOS with WebView) or with an external PDF Viewer (Android).

My Question is: Is this possible with Trigger.io? I didn’t find anything concerning this in the official documentation. Can we do something with the file or the child browser / tabs module? If yes, do you have any examples?

Note: We will use Backbone.js and jQuery Mobile as additional libraries.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The Android webview doesn’t allow for inline opening of PDFs – you can test that by opening e.g. http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/trigger.io-whitepaper.pdf in your stock browser.

    On iOS, you can use:

    forge.tools.getURL('my_file.pdf',
  function (file) {
    forge.tabs.open(file);
  }
);

    But that won’t work on Android (tested on 2.3, 3 and 4.0).

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