Unable to open PDF documents in WebView

Question

I am using WebView to open a url which is in fact a pdf document. Here is the code snippet.

WebView webView = (WebView) context.findViewById(R.id.webView1);
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
webView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
webView.loadUrl("http://www.stagecoachbus.com/PdfUploads/Timetable_28768_5.pdf");

And the error obtained is:

EventHub.removeMessages(int what = 107) is not supported before the WebViewCore is set up

I was able to open normal web pages. However, opening pdf files results in exception.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

Solution 1

To open pdf in Webview , it better to show pdf via google doc service

WebView webView = (WebView) context.findViewById(R.id.webView1);
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
webView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
webView.loadUrl("http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=http://www.stagecoachbus.com/PdfUploads/Timetable_28768_5.pdf");

It help you to show pdf.

Solution 2

if u want to read pdf file offline

you can use mupdf-android library. it is good library.

I have used this in my one application. it is written in C. there instruction are given to make it workable.

Comments

[Renjith]

yeah, it will work. But wouldn't it work without google doc service?

[Md Abdul Gafur]

To show pdf without google service > This post help you but you do not able to show in webview.>>stackoverflow.com/questions/6728920/…

[Alfie Hanssen]

Google docs approach doesn't seem to work for local PDF files, can you provide an example for local files?

[shoke]

The google docs suggestion is terrible. You have this google docs reader that's designed for desktop in a tiny screen. How is this considered a good solution? Are all of you purposely designing ugly apps? Not user friendly at all. This solution should be illegal.