How i can enable to Download PDF via Webview

Question

i am very new to Android but i create a webview and it displays a wordpress page with a Download Link for a PDF in it, but when i tap on it nothing happends, i hope you can

Answer 1

Try to add this to to your code: (probably in your updateWebView method) This will intercept any downloads and send them to the standard android download manager.

 mWebView.setDownloadListener(new DownloadListener() {
    public void onDownloadStart(String url, String userAgent,
            String contentDisposition, String mimetype,
            long contentLength) {
                Request request = new Request( Uri.parse(url));
                request.allowScanningByMediaScanner();
                request.setNotificationVisibility(DownloadManager.Request.VISIBILITY_VISIBLE_NOTIFY_COMPLETED);
                request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS, "myPDFfile.pdf"); 
                DownloadManager dm = (DownloadManager) getSystemService(DOWNLOAD_SERVICE);
                dm.enqueue(request);        
   }
});

Note that this will use the same filename everytime, so your file may get replaced unless you modify the code to use a different filename.