Android view for displaying PDFs rendered with PdfiumAndroid
Android view for displaying PDFs rendered with PdfiumAndroid
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AndroidPdfViewer 1.x is available on AndroidPdfViewerV1 repo, where can be developed independently. Version 1.x uses different engine for drawing document on canvas, so if you don't like 2.x version, try 1.x.
Library for displaying PDF documents on Android, with animations, gestures, zoom and double tap support.
It is based on PdfiumAndroid for decoding PDF files. Works on API 11 (Android 3.0) and higher.
Licensed under Apache License 2.0.
fitEachPage optionContants.PRELOAD_COUNT with PRELOAD_OFFSETPDFView#fitToWidth() (variant without arguments)Configurator#invalidPageColor(int) method as invalid pages are not renderedOnRenderListener#onInitiallyRendered(int) method, as document may have different page sizesPDFView#setSwipeVertical() methodAdd to build.gradle:
implementation 'com.github.barteksc:android-pdf-viewer:3.2.0-beta.1'
or if you want to use more stable version:
implementation 'com.github.barteksc:android-pdf-viewer:2.8.2'
Library is available in jcenter repository, probably it'll be in Maven Central soon.
✅ RESOLVED: This library has been updated and successfully fixed to support 16 KB page sizes for Google Play compatibility. Starting November 1st, 2025, all new apps and updates targeting Android 15+ must support 16 KB page sizes.
pdfium-android:1.9.0 dependency contained prebuilt native libraries that were not aligned for 16 KB page sizesUse the provided scripts to verify 16 KB alignment:
./check_16kb_alignment.sh your-app.apk.\check_16kb_alignment.ps1 -ApkFile "your-app.apk".\realign_apk.bat "your-app.apk"Your app will now pass Google Play's 16 KB compatibility checks and work on devices with 16 KB page sizes.
For more details, see 16KB_SUPPORT.md.
If you are using ProGuard, add following rule to proguard config file:
-keep class com.shockwave.**
<com.github.barteksc.pdfviewer.PDFView
android:id="@+id/pdfView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
All available options with default values:
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pages is optional, it allows you to filter and order the pages of the PDF as you needScroll handle is replacement for ScrollBar from 1.x branch.
From version 2.1.0 putting PDFView in RelativeLayout to use ScrollHandle is not required, you can use any layout.
To use scroll handle just register it using method Configurator#scrollHandle().
This method accepts implementations of ScrollHandle interface.
There is default implementation shipped with AndroidPdfViewer, and you can use it with
.scrollHandle(new DefaultScrollHandle(this)).
DefaultScrollHandle is placed on the right (when scrolling vertically) or on the bottom (when scrolling horizontally).
By using constructor with second argument (new DefaultScrollHandle(this, true)), handle can be placed left or top.
You can also create custom scroll handles, just implement ScrollHandle interface. All methods are documented as Javadoc comments on interface source.
Version 2.3.0 introduced document sources, which are just providers for PDF documents. Every provider implements DocumentSource interface. Predefined providers are available in com.github.barteksc.pdfviewer.source package and can be used as samples for creating custom ones.
Predefined providers can be used with shorthand methods:
pdfView.fromUri(Uri)
pdfView.fromFile(File)
pdfView.fromBytes(byte[])
pdfView.fromStream(InputStream)
pdfView.fromAsset(String)
Custom providers may be used with pdfView.fromSource(DocumentSource) method.
Version 3.0.0 introduced support for links in PDF documents. By default, DefaultLinkHandler is used and clicking on link that references page in same document causes jump to destination page and clicking on link that targets some URI causes opening it in default application.
You can also create custom link handlers, just implement LinkHandler interface and set it using
Configurator#linkHandler(LinkHandler) method. Take a look at DefaultLinkHandler
source to implement custom behavior.
Since version 3.0.0, library supports fitting pages into the screen in 3 modes:
Apart from selected policy, every page is scaled to have size relative to other pages.
Fit policy can be set using Configurator#pageFitPolicy(FitPolicy). Default policy is WIDTH.
By default, generated bitmaps are compressed with RGB_565 format to reduce memory consumption.
Rendering with ARGB_8888 can be forced by using pdfView.useBestQuality(true) method.
There are three zoom levels: min (default 1), mid (default 1.75) and max (default 3). On first double tap, view is zoomed to mid level, on second to max level, and on third returns to min level. If you are between mid and max levels, double tapping causes zooming to max and so on.
Zoom levels can be changed using following methods:
void setMinZoom(float zoom);
void setMidZoom(float zoom);
void setMaxZoom(float zoom);
Android PdfViewer depends on PdfiumAndroid, which is set of native libraries (almost 16 MB) for many architectures. Apk must contain all this libraries to run on every device available on market. Fortunately, Google Play allows us to upload multiple apks, e.g. one per every architecture. There is good article on automatically splitting your application into multiple apks, available here. Most important section is Improving multiple APKs creation and versionCode handling with APK Splits, but whole article is worth reading. You only need to do this in your application, no need for forking PdfiumAndroid or so.
Downloading files is long running process which must be aware of Activity lifecycle, must support some configuration, data cleanup and caching, so creating such module will probably end up as new library.
You have to store current page number and then set it with pdfView.defaultPage(page), refer to sample app
Use FitPolicy.WIDTH policy or add following snippet when you want to fit desired page in document with different page sizes:
Configurator.onRender(new OnRenderListener() {
@Override
public void onInitiallyRendered(int pages, float pageWidth, float pageHeight) {
pdfView.fitToWidth(pageIndex);
}
});
You can use a combination of the following settings to get scroll and fling behaviour similar to a ViewPager:
.swipeHorizontal(true)
.pageSnap(true)
.autoSpacing(true)
.pageFling(true)
If you have any suggestions on making this lib better, write me, create issue or write some code and send pull request.
Created with the help of android-pdfview by Joan Zapata
Copyright 2017 Bartosz Schiller
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