rendering PDFs doesn't work in android

[ddyer0]

using BrowserComponent to display PDF files does not work on Android devices. It works in the
simulator and on IOS. There is no indication of an error, except that a completely blank frame is
displayed.

''''java

package com.boardspace.dtest;

import com.codename1.ui.BrowserComponent;
// issue #
//
// drawing pdfs
//
//
import com.codename1.ui.Display;
import com.codename1.ui.Form;
import com.codename1.ui.plaf.UIManager;
import com.codename1.ui.util.Resources;
import com.codename1.ui.layouts.BorderLayout;

@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
public class Dtest{

private Form current;
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
private Resources theme;

public void init(Object context) {
theme = UIManager.initFirstTheme("/theme");
// Pro only feature, uncomment if you have a pro subscription
// Log.bindCrashProtection(true);
}

public void start() {

if(current != null){
    current.show();
}
Form hi = new Form("Hi >>0 World");
hi.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
BrowserComponent b = new BrowserComponent();
current = hi;
hi.addComponent(BorderLayout.CENTER,b);
b.setURL("https://boardspace.net/colorito/english/COLORITO_EN.pdf");
b.setPinchToZoomEnabled(true);
b.setVisible(true);
hi.show();

}
public void stop() {
current = Display.getInstance().getCurrent();
}

public void destroy() {
}

}
''''

[Steve Hannah]

Try loading an html page from the same server to rule out TLS certificate issues.

Also check device log.

[ddyer0]

Regular html pages work fine. There are no signs of activity in the device logs, codename1 logs, my logs.
No errors are thrown.

[ddyer0]

I researched this a little bit today - and apparently it is a limitation of the native browser, BUT
there is a workaround! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7437602/how-to-display-a-pdf-via-android-web-browser-without-downloading-first
Using this, and the" shouldNavigate" callback, I can rewrite pdfs to feed them to google docs.

The underlying limitation is annoying, but with this workaround I think you have higher priority things to do.