Upload and display a MS word Document in Android

Question

I need to create an app that takes a MS word document and lets the user of the app interact with the pages meaning viewing each page separately, zooming, going forward and backward.

Answer 1

There is no API built into Android for reading Microsoft documents.

I would estimate implementing what you seek to take over 100 engineer-months. There are only a few apps ever written that can display Word documents, and only 2-3 of these have been ported to Android.

I would recommend you do a server-side conversion of the Word document to HTML, then display it in a WebView widget, if you want something that takes less engineering time to implement.