Opening a PDF file in Android?

Question

Android

Hello! Please tell me how you can open a PDF file inside the application, and not use third-party programs. There are many examples on the Internet, but they are all the same and open pdf in third-party programs, and I need the pdf to open inside my application. Maybe someone knows or did?
advise the iText library. How to connect it?

Answer 1

There is an old lifehack - through WebView, you may need along with a link to Google " https://docs.google.com/viewer?url={link_to_file.pdf} "() you can save the file to the device, print it, and some other standard feature set.

String doc="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url="+link;
webView.loadUrl(doc);

Answer 2

mupdf is pretty smart

Answer 3

For android versions >21 you can use PdfRenderer. An example of usage can be seen here