Hi Chethiya,

We did some research on this and our conclusion was to go with an open
source PDF viewer library and get it improved to our needs. Android's
webview is not capable of rendering PDF's. What we did there was, embedding
the Google doc viewer and loading the document online via GDOc viewer. But
google doc viewer wasn't able to render some PDF files. But it did most. My
view is, we should use an open source viewer such as [1]. [2] or [3] and
get them improved to our needs. Or else write a new Android compatible
viewer using [4].

[5], [6], [7], [8] are extremely good paid PDF reader SDK's which you can
have a look to get an idea of what needs to be improved on those open
source projects.

[1] - https://code.google.com/p/droidreader/
[2] - https://code.google.com/p/apv/
[3] - https://code.google.com/p/ebookdroid/
[4] - https://pdfbox.apache.org/
[5] - http://www.binpress.com/app/pdf-sdk-for-android/1541
[6] - http://www.qoppa.com/android/pdfsdk/
[7] - http://www.androidpdf.mobi/
[8] - http://plugpdf.com/ <http://plugpdf.com/>

Regards,

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Chan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Chethiya,
> We haven't yet decided on the libraries to use for Document viewing. We
> did some initial PoC on this - @Kasun should be able to shed some light on
> this matter. I remember that we used a web view to render a file -
> Android's web view is capable of rendering PDFs. Also it would be best if
> you can make a review of all the libraries available for this task and list
> down pros and cons. That way -we can find a way forward.
>
> Cheers~
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Chethiya Edirisinghe <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Sir,
>>
>> I was wondering if you could suggest me any specific PDF (or doc, excel)
>> support libraries you intend to use on Document Viewer for WSO2 EMM, since
>> Android currently does not support any native PDF viewing functionality.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chethiya Edirisinghe
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Samisa Abeysinghe <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dulitha, can you please help?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Samisa...
>>>
>>>
>>> Samisa Abeysinghe
>>>
>>> Vice President Delivery
>>>
>>> WSO2 Inc.
>>> http://wso2.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Chethiya Edirisinghe <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Sir,
>>>>
>>>> I've been trying to contact Mr. Shanmugarajah but unfortunately I
>>>> haven't heard from him yet. Could you, if possible, refer me to another
>>>> developer who is currently involved in the project.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Chethiya Edirisinghe.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Samisa Abeysinghe <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sure, he can do this project
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Samisa...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Samisa Abeysinghe
>>>>>
>>>>> Vice President Delivery
>>>>>
>>>>> WSO2 Inc.
>>>>> http://wso2.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Chethiya Edirisinghe <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Sir,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As my friend Madhawa said, I would be grateful if you'd give me the
>>>>>> green light on the above mentioned project.
>>>>>> I am hoping to contact Mr. Sinnathamby Shanmugarajah who was the
>>>>>> assigned mentor for the project and also looking forward for your help 
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> advice along the way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Chethiya Edirisinghe,
>>>>>> Undergraduate,
>>>>>> Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
>>>>>> University of Moratuwa.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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> Software Engineer - Mobile Development
> WSO2 Inc
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