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Does android have a built-in PDF viewer?

I heard something recently about it being included in Froyo and I was wondering if there was any truth to it. If there is, it would help me with an app idea greatly.

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NotACleverMan Avatar asked Oct 19 '10 13:10

NotACleverMan


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You are probably referring to the Adobe Reader, which is freely available for Android 2.1+. Some devices also have other applications pre-installed for rendering pdf files. See this question on how you can open the default pdf viewer from your application.

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kgiannakakis Avatar answered Oct 11 '22 20:10

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Android has a built in framework from Android 5.0 / Lollipop, it's called PDFRenderer.

There's an official example on Google's developer site:

http://developer.android.com/samples/PdfRendererBasic/index.html

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JosephH Avatar answered Oct 11 '22 18:10

JosephH