How to open and PDF or word document in the [Flutter]

Question

Question is simple, I would like to open any pdf or doc file via default App with using Flutter.

Think a Raised button that related my pdf asset, when user press it, pdf will be opened via Acrobat reader or etc. I don't want to use any web_view for it.

is it supported in Flutter?

Answer 1

You can do this by opening google docs in a web browser :

In pubspec.yaml you need :

url_launcher: ^0.4.2+5 

Includes :

import 'package:flutter/src/gestures/tap.dart'; import 'package:url_launcher/url_launcher.dart'; 

Code snippet :

new RichText(   text: new LinkTextSpan(       url: 'http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.pdf995.com/samples/pdf.pdf',       text: 'Show My Pdf'), ), 

LinkTextSpan class :

class LinkTextSpan extends TextSpan {   LinkTextSpan({TextStyle style, String url, String text})       : super(       style: style,       text: text ?? url,       recognizer: new TapGestureRecognizer()         ..onTap = () {           launch(url);         }); } 

Answer 2

A good and simple approach to this is the open_file package which lets you open a file with the given path. It supports numerous different file types:

import 'package:open_file/open_file.dart';  OpenFile.open("/sdcard/example.pdf");