pdf viewer in phonegap Android

Question

I'm looking for a pdf viewer for Android using Phonegap 2.0. I tried the childbrowser plugin which worked on iOS but not on Android. I tried this http://www.giovesoft.com/2011/08/download-and-open-pdf-with-phonegap.html but that didn't work either, I get error messages like PhoneGap is not defined at file and cannot call method "showPdf" of undefined.

Solution 1

you can use pdf.js :

pdf.js is an HTML5 technology experiment that explores building a faithful and efficient Portable Document Format (PDF) renderer without native code assistance.

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js

Solution 2

I answered a similar question already (see Open PDF with PhoneGap in Android) but will do the same here. Use the ChildBrowser plugin as suggested in conjunction with Google Docs like so:

onclick='window.plugins.childBrowser.showWebPage(encodeURI("http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=' + pdfLink + '"));

This works fine for me and I have tested it in Android 2.1 up to 4.1.

Comments

[BBdev]

look at this link stackoverflow.com/questions/6979344/…

[Leon van der Veen]

Thanks but I think its not very useful because they only have a solution for IOS

[BBdev]

have you checked this blog giovesoft.com/2011/08/download-and-open-pdf-with-phonegap.ht‌​ml

[Leon van der Veen]

Yes like I said in my topic ;)

[BBdev]

oops didnt look at your link sorry ..... ;-)

[Simon MacDonald]

The reason it doesn't work for you is that the plugin needs to be updated to Cordova. simonmacdonald.blogspot.com/2012/04/…

[Leon van der Veen]

Thanks, I already used this plugin but on some PDF files the rendering is not optimal.

[akohout]

I also tried out pdf.js, but may impression is that it is too slow for production use on mobiles. It has to repaint for every page and zoom factor.