Invoking Adobe Reader from within my Android application

Question

I am writing an Android application to display pdf files on the device. And I need to use the current versioncode (35498) of the Adobe Reader to display the pdf files.I have with code to display list of files on the screen. Now I need to invoke the Adobe reader (not any other pdf reader installed on the device) onclick of each document. I am not sure how I code that. I am an Android newbie. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance, Navin

Answer 1

Try the following code

private void loadDocInReader(String doc)
     throws ActivityNotFoundException, Exception {

    try {
                Intent intent = new Intent();

                intent.setPackage("com.adobe.reader");
                intent.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(doc), "application/pdf");

                startActivity(intent);

    } catch (ActivityNotFoundException activityNotFoundException) {
                activityNotFoundException.printStackTrace();

                throw activityNotFoundException;
    } catch (Exception otherException) {
                otherException.printStackTrace();

                throw otherException;
    }
}

Answer 2

I see that you want to open Adobe specifically, but you may want to consider doing it the more Android-like way of opening a general intent and allowing the user to choose how it opens. For your reference, you'd do that with the following code:

private void openFile(File f, String mimeType)
{
    Intent viewIntent = new Intent();
    viewIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    viewIntent.setDataAndType(Uri.fromFile(file), mimeType);
    // using the packagemanager to query is faster than trying startActivity
    // and catching the activity not found exception, which causes a stack unwind.
    List<ResolveInfo> resolved = getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(viewIntent, 0);
    if(resolved != null && resolved.size() > 0)
    {
        startActivity(viewIntent);
    }
    else
    {
        // notify the user they can't open it.
    }
}

If you really need to use both Abode Reader specifically, and a specific version, you would need to query for it using PackageManager.getPackageInfo(String, int)