Tuesday 2 August 2011

View PDF file by starting activity with intent of ACTION_VIEW

By starting activity with intent of ACTION_VIEW, for "application/pdf", we can ask the installed PDF ready to open PDF file from our app.

View PDF file by starting activity with intent of ACTION_VIEW

package com.exercise.AndroidReadPDF;

import java.io.File;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class AndroidReadPDFActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);

String path = "/sdcard/AndroidUsersGuide-2.3.4.pdf";
File targetFile = new File(path);
Uri targetUri = Uri.fromFile(targetFile);

Intent intent;
intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(targetUri, "application/pdf");

startActivity(intent);
}
}

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