PDF Viewer ANE (Android+iOS)

Pdf Viewer Air Native Extension lets you open pdf files right from your Air mobile apps. On both Android and iOS, it will open a dialog and lets you select which program you wish to use for opening the file.

find the latest asdoc for this ANE here.

Air Usage

import com.myflashlab.air.extensions.pdf.*;

var _ex:PdfViewer = new PdfViewer();
_ex.addEventListener(PdfViewerEvent.STATUS, onStatus);

var result:Boolean = _ex.run(File.cacheDirectory.resolvePath("sample_pdfViewer_ane.pdf"));
trace(result);

private function onStatus(e:PdfViewerEvent):void
{
	trace(e.param);
}

Air .xml manifest

<uses-sdk android:targetSdkVersion="28"/>
<application>

    <!--
        Other Activities, services, or providers of your Android app.
    -->


    <!--
        Change [YOUR_PACKAGE_ID] to your own applicationID but keep
        ".provider" at the end. [YOUR_PACKAGE_ID].provider
    -->
    <provider
        android:name="com.myflashlabs.pdfViewer.AnePdfViewerProvider"
        android:authorities="[YOUR_PACKAGE_ID].provider"
        android:exported="false"
        android:grantUriPermissions="true">
        <meta-data
            android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
            android:resource="@xml/pdf_viewer_ane_provider_paths"/>
    </provider>

<application>




<extensions>

	<extensionID>com.myflashlab.air.extensions.pdfViewer</extensionID>

	<!-- dependency ANEs -->
	<extensionID>com.myflashlab.air.extensions.dependency.androidx.core</extensionID>
	<extensionID>com.myflashlab.air.extensions.dependency.androidx.lifecycle</extensionID>
	<extensionID>com.myflashlab.air.extensions.dependency.overrideAir</extensionID>

</extensions>

Requirements

Android SDK 19+
iOS 10.0+
AIR SDK 33+

Commercial Version

https://www.myflashlabs.com/product/pdf-reader-ane-adobe-air-native-extension/

Tech Details

On iOS side, the dialog will always open but on the Android side, if there is no application installed on the device to be able to handle PDF files, the extension will return false. So you should probably promote that user to install Acrobat reader app or any other application that can handle PDF files.

On Android side, your pdf file must be copied to File.cacheDirectory. On iOS side, your file can be anywhere! File.applicationDirectory, File.applicationStorageDirectory or File.documentsDirectory they all work.

Tutorials

How to embed ANEs into FlashBuilder, FlashCC and FlashDevelop

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