plugin does not work with PDF's on an Android

[29er]

Has anyone succesfully gotten this to work, a PDF on an Android. specifically a local PDF, not a web url ?
It works fine on iOS but Android it is just a blank screen.
Thanks

[cemerson]

I feel your pain man. I'm working on a couple hacks of childbrowser for this purpose. Feel free to take a look at what I've got (only tested/geared towards iOS at the moment) - it can do what you're looking for but may need some clean-up/hacking for Android use. It's my first repo btw so apologies if its got "noob" written all over it.

https://github.com/cemerson/cordova-pdfbrowser

[29er]

awesome ! I will give it a shot. thanks Chris !
Quick question, do I need to have a PDF viewer installed on the android for this to work?.
I was looking at the WebIntent plugin, combined with having Adobe PDF viewer installed on my galaxy s3. I was going to see if that works too.
Thanks for any info .

Doug

On May 1, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Chris Emerson wrote:

I feel your pain man. I'm working on a couple hacks of childbrowser for this purpose. Feel free to take a look at what I've got (only tested/geared towards iOS at the moment) - it can do what you're looking for but may need some clean-up/hacking for Android use. It's my first repo btw so apologies if its got "noob" written all over it.

https://github.com/cemerson/cordova-pdfbrowser

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[cemerson]

AFAIK no you don’t. My hack of the childbrowser thing uses the native (webkit?) parsing of PDFs (Android has that too yes?) … my version just has some adjustments to handle PDFs instead of URLs.

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awesome ! I will give it a shot. thanks Chris !
Quick question, do I need to have a PDF viewer installed on the android for this to work?.
I was looking at the WebIntent plugin, combined with having Adobe PDF viewer installed on my galaxy s3. I was going to see if that works too.
Thanks for any info .

Doug

On May 1, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Chris Emerson wrote:

I feel your pain man. I'm working on a couple hacks of childbrowser for this purpose. Feel free to take a look at what I've got (only tested/geared towards iOS at the moment) - it can do what you're looking for but may need some clean-up/hacking for Android use. It's my first repo btw so apologies if its got "noob" written all over it.

https://github.com/cemerson/cordova-pdfbrowser

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[29er]

gotcha, thanks. I am gonna give it a shot.

On May 1, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Chris Emerson wrote:

AFAIK no you don’t. My hack of the childbrowser thing uses the native (webkit?) parsing of PDFs (Android has that too yes?) … my version just has some adjustments to handle PDFs instead of URLs.

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Chris Emerson | 919-335-8480

From: Doug Wood [mailto:notifications@github.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 1:11 PM
To: alunny/ChildBrowser
Cc: Chris Emerson
Subject: Re: [ChildBrowser] plugin does not work with PDF's on an Android (#33)

awesome ! I will give it a shot. thanks Chris !
Quick question, do I need to have a PDF viewer installed on the android for this to work?.
I was looking at the WebIntent plugin, combined with having Adobe PDF viewer installed on my galaxy s3. I was going to see if that works too.
Thanks for any info .

Doug

On May 1, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Chris Emerson wrote:

I feel your pain man. I'm working on a couple hacks of childbrowser for this purpose. Feel free to take a look at what I've got (only tested/geared towards iOS at the moment) - it can do what you're looking for but may need some clean-up/hacking for Android use. It's my first repo btw so apologies if its got "noob" written all over it.

https://github.com/cemerson/cordova-pdfbrowser

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