Android - open pdf in external application

Question

i\'ve a pdf file in my app assets directory that i want open using an external app, so wrote my content provider and i\'m tryng to make it work but nothing...

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Answer 1

I am new to android development and spent the whole day looking for the reason that my locally stored PDF could not be opened by external apps. I am glad having found this thread.

In the meantime Marco got it working and describes it here. Beware: Italian language- Google translation service might help ;-)

http://www.marcofaion.it/?p=7
http://web.archive.org/web/20111020204554/http://www.marcofaion.it/?p=7

Additional notes to his howto for beginners:

The line Marco mentions to be inserted in the Manifest.xml

should be inserted within the tag.

And if you plan to have custom filenames you should exchange

InputStream is = am.open("file.pdf");

with

InputStream is = am.open(uri.getLastPathSegment());

PDF files have to be put into already existing folder assets in your project (especially not in any newly added folder res/assets or sth.)! =)