Android - Load PDF inside webview

Question

I have this webview code and I want to make it possible to have the PDF files opened when a user clicks on a PDF link. Here is the code, can you tell me what I have to put

Answer 1

This could be as simple as:

try
{
 Intent intentUrl = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
 intentUrl.setDataAndType(url, "application/pdf");
 intentUrl.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
 myActivity.startActivity(intentUrl);
}
catch (ActivityNotFoundException e)
{
 Toast.makeText(myActivity, "No PDF Viewer Installed", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

though I've not tried this.

In our apps, we DOWNLOAD the PDF to the apps file system, make it world readable, then pass the path in an Intent to open a PDF viewing app (e.g. Acrobat Reader). Please note that you'd also need to also be concerned with cleaning up these downloaded PDF's!

in your try block put

new DownloadPDFTask().execute(url);

DownloadPDFTask class:

public class DownloadPDFTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Integer> 
{
    protected ProgressDialog mWorkingDialog;    // progress dialog
    protected String mFileName;         // downloaded file
    protected String mError;            // for errors

    @Override
    protected Integer doInBackground(String... urls)
    {

     try
     {
      byte[] dataBuffer = new byte[4096];
          int nRead = 0;

          // set local filename to last part of URL
          String[] strURLParts = urls[0].split("/");
          if (strURLParts.length > 0)
            mFileName = strURLParts[strURLParts.length - 1];
          else
                mFileName = "REPORT.pdf";

          // download URL and store to strFileName

          // connection to url
      java.net.URL urlReport = new java.net.URL(urls[0]);
          URLConnection urlConn = urlReport.openConnection();
          InputStream streamInput = urlConn.getInputStream();
          BufferedInputStream bufferedStreamInput = new BufferedInputStream(streamInput);
          FileOutputStream outputStream = myActivity.openFileOutput(mFileName,Context.MODE_WORLD_READABLE); // must be world readable so external Intent can open!
          while ((nRead = bufferedStreamInput.read(dataBuffer)) > 0)
                outputStream.write(dataBuffer, 0, nRead);
          streamInput.close();
          outputStream.close();
      }
      catch (Exception e)
      {
       Log.e("myApp", e.getMessage());
       mError = e.getMessage();
       return (1);
      }

     return (0);
    }

    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // PreExecute - UI thread setup
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute()
    {
     // show "Downloading, Please Wait" dialog
     mWorkingDialog = ProgressDialog.show(myActivity, "", "Downloading PDF Document, Please Wait...", true);
     return;
    }

    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // PostExecute - UI thread finish
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute (Integer result)
    {
         if (mWorkingDialog != null)
      {
       mWorkingDialog.dismiss();
       mWorkingDialog = null;
      }

         switch (result)
         {
         case 0:                            // a URL

            // Intent to view download PDF
            Uri uri  = Uri.fromFile(myActivity.getFileStreamPath(mFileName));

            try
            {
                Intent intentUrl = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
                intentUrl.setDataAndType(uri, "application/pdf");
                intentUrl.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
                myActivity.startActivity(intentUrl);
            }
            catch (ActivityNotFoundException e)
            {
                Toast.makeText(myActivity, "No PDF Viewer Installed", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }

            break;

        case 1:                         // Error

            Toast.makeText(myActivity, mError, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            break;

        }

    }

}

any reference to "myActivity" must be replaced with a reference to your Activity class

Answer 2

I was trying to handle this exact same scenario. The solution I came up with is below.

public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            String cleanUrl = url;
            if (url.contains("?")) {
                // remove the query string
                cleanUrl = url.substring(0,url.indexOf("?"));
            }

            if (cleanUrl.endsWith("pdf")) {

                try {
                    Uri uriUrl = Uri.parse(cleanUrl);
                    Intent intentUrl = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uriUrl);
                    startActivity(intentUrl);
                    return true;

                } catch (Exception e) {
                    System.out.println(e);
                    Toast.makeText(context,"No PDF Viewer Installed", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                }
            }

            return false;
        }

I needed to make sure it would handle pdf links, even if there was a query string. Still a bit hacky as the cleanUrl needs to end in "pdf", but so long as that is true, this should work. If you're serving up pdf's through a php script or something, you might want to dig a little deeper, handle things based on MIME type or something.

Answer 3

FWIW, mozilla has a PDF-reader-entirely-in-JavaScript that's apache licensed. Might be worth looking into if you don't mind the extra size. That way you can do everything in-browser and won't have to rely on a 3rd party PDF reader.

Answer 4

Please checkout the example for handling redirect urls and open PDF without download, in webview.

private void init()
{
    WebView webview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
    WebSettings settings = webview.getSettings();
    settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    webview.setScrollBarStyle(WebView.SCROLLBARS_OUTSIDE_OVERLAY);

    PdfWebViewClient pdfWebViewClient = new PdfWebViewClient(this, webview);
    pdfWebViewClient.loadPdfUrl(
                "https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwjgwIfp3KXSAhXrhFQKHQqEDHYQFggZMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orimi.com%2Fpdf-test.pdf&usg=AFQjCNERYYcSfMLS5ukBcT2Qy11YxEhXqw&cad=rja");
}

private class PdfWebViewClient extends WebViewClient
{
    private static final String TAG = "PdfWebViewClient";
    private static final String PDF_EXTENSION = ".pdf";
    private static final String PDF_VIEWER_URL = "http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=";

    private Context mContext;
    private WebView mWebView;
    private ProgressDialog mProgressDialog;
    private boolean isLoadingPdfUrl;

    public PdfWebViewClient(Context context, WebView webView)
    {
        mContext = context;
        mWebView = webView;
        mWebView.setWebViewClient(this);
    }

    public void loadPdfUrl(String url)
    {
        mWebView.stopLoading();

        if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(url))
        {
            isLoadingPdfUrl = isPdfUrl(url);
            if (isLoadingPdfUrl)
            {
                mWebView.clearHistory();
            }

            showProgressDialog();
        }

        mWebView.loadUrl(url);
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView webView, String url)
    {
        return shouldOverrideUrlLoading(url);
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    @Override
    public void onReceivedError(WebView webView, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl)
    {
        handleError(errorCode, description.toString(), failingUrl);
    }

    @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.N)
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView webView, WebResourceRequest request)
    {
        final Uri uri = request.getUrl();
        return shouldOverrideUrlLoading(webView, uri.toString());
    }

    @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.N)
    @Override
    public void onReceivedError(final WebView webView, final WebResourceRequest request, final WebResourceError error)
    {
        final Uri uri = request.getUrl();
        handleError(error.getErrorCode(), error.getDescription().toString(), uri.toString());
    }

    @Override
    public void onPageFinished(final WebView view, final String url)
    {
        Log.i(TAG, "Finished loading. URL : " + url);
        dismissProgressDialog();
    }

    private boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(final String url)
    {
        Log.i(TAG, "shouldOverrideUrlLoading() URL : " + url);

        if (!isLoadingPdfUrl && isPdfUrl(url))
        {
            mWebView.stopLoading();

            final String pdfUrl = PDF_VIEWER_URL + url;

            new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable()
            {
                @Override
                public void run()
                {
                    loadPdfUrl(pdfUrl);
                }
            }, 300);

            return true;
        }

        return false; // Load url in the webView itself
    }

    private void handleError(final int errorCode, final String description, final String failingUrl)
    {
        Log.e(TAG, "Error : " + errorCode + ", " + description + " URL : " + failingUrl);
    }

    private void showProgressDialog()
    {
        dismissProgressDialog();
        mProgressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(mContext, "", "Loading...");
    }

    private void dismissProgressDialog()
    {
        if (mProgressDialog != null && mProgressDialog.isShowing())
        {
            mProgressDialog.dismiss();
            mProgressDialog = null;
        }
    }

    private boolean isPdfUrl(String url)
    {
        if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(url))
        {
            url = url.trim();
            int lastIndex = url.toLowerCase().lastIndexOf(PDF_EXTENSION);
            if (lastIndex != -1)
            {
                return url.substring(lastIndex).equalsIgnoreCase(PDF_EXTENSION);
            }
        }
        return false;
    }
}

Answer 5

Loading pdf within a webview:

WebView wv = (WebView) view.findViewById(R.id.webPage);
            wv.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
            wv.setWebViewClient(new WebClient());
            wv.loadUrl("http://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?embedded=true&url=" + mUrl);
            wv.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);

mUrl - will be your pdf link