Android Failed to Show PDF using AssetManager

Question

I want to open a PDF from the assets folder from my activity button action and I used the below codes but nothing happens.

 public class AssetsProvider extends ContentProvider {
    @Override
    public AssetFileDescriptor openAssetFile(Uri uri, String mode ) throws FileNotFoundException
    {
    AssetManager am = getContext( ).getAssets( );
    String file_name = uri.getPath().substring(1, uri.getPath().length());
    if( file_name == null )
            throw new FileNotFoundException( );

    AssetFileDescriptor afd = null;
    try
    {
        afd = am.openFd( file_name );
    }
    catch(IOException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace( );
    }
   return afd;
}
@Override
    public String getType( Uri p1 )
    {
        return null;
    }
 @Override
    public int delete( Uri p1, String p2, String[] p3 )
    {
        return 0;
    }
 @Override
    public Cursor query( Uri p1, String[] p2, String p3, String[] p4, String p5 )
    {
        return null;
    }
@Override
    public Cursor query( Uri uri, String[] projection, String selection, String[] selectionArgs, String sortOrder, CancellationSignal cancellationSignal )
    {
        return super.query( uri, projection, selection, selectionArgs, sortOrder, cancellationSignal );
    }
    @Override
    public Uri insert( Uri p1, ContentValues p2 )
    {
        return null;
    }
  @Override
    public boolean onCreate( )
    {
        return false;
    }
 @Override
    public int update( Uri p1, ContentValues p2, String p3, String[] p4 )
    {
        return 0;
    }
}

And it's triggered from a activity button action as follows and the pdf file path url passed from here:

btn_help.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                        @Override
                        public void onClick(View v) {
    try {
                               new  AssetsProvider().openAssetFile(Uri.parse("file:///android_asset/Guide.pdf"),null);
                            } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
                                e.printStackTrace();
                            }
                        }
                    });

Declared the provider class on Manifest like below :

 <provider
            android:name="com.star.form.helper.AssetsProvider"
            android:authorities="om.star.form.eform.helper"
            android:grantUriPermissions="true"
            android:exported="true" />

Please guide me on this.

If `AssetsProvider` is a `ContentProvider`, as your manifest entry indicates, then probably you should not be creating an instance of it yourself. If your objective is that, in `onClick()`, you want to view the PDF, use `startActivity()` with an `ACTION_VIEW` `Intent`, where the `Uri` in that `Intent` points to your provider and the asset that you want to it to serve. See https://stackoverflow.com/q/29477209/115145 for the basics, though it uses `ACTION_SEND`, which works a bit differently. — CommonsWare, Jun 12 '21 at 16:02
FWIW, you can download [this older edition of one of my books](https://commonsware.com/Android/Android-8.6-CC.pdf). I have a couple of chapters on `ContentProvider`, including samples of viewing a PDF served by a `ContentProvider`. — CommonsWare, Jun 12 '21 at 16:04
Tried like this String theUri ="file:///android_asset/Guide.pdf"; File file5 = new File(theUri); Uri path = FileProvider.getUriForFile(getApplicationContext(),getApplicationContext().getPackageName()+".helper.AssetsProvider", file5);Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); intent.setDataAndType(path, "application/pdf"); startActivity(intent); But no hope — Malhotra, Jun 12 '21 at 16:29
That is for using `FileProvider`. `FileProvider` does not support serving from assets, and your code in your question is not using `FileProvider`. It is using an `AssetsProvider` implementation that you wrote. You need to supply a `Uri` that points to your `AssetsProvider`. By eyeball, that would appear to be `content://om.star.form.eform.helper/Guide.pdf`. — CommonsWare, Jun 12 '21 at 16:37
No hope.Tried like this Uri theUri = Uri.parse("content://com.star.form.form.helper/file:///android_asset/Guide.pdf"); Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); intent.setType("application/pdf"); intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM,theUri); — Malhotra, Jun 13 '21 at 05:30
"Tried like this Uri theUri = Uri.parse("content://com.star.form.form.helper/file:///android_asset/Guide.pdf");" -- that is not what I suggested that you try. — CommonsWare, Jun 13 '21 at 10:37

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 12 '21 at 15:14

if want

you can simply show pdf file in WebView

in your java class

btn_help.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                        @Override
                        public void onClick(View v) {
           Intent myIntent = new Intent(yourActivity.this, WebviewActivity.class);
        startActivity(intent);
                        }
                    });

Create webview.xml

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android = "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   xmlns:app = "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
   xmlns:tools = "http://schemas.android.com/tools"
   android:layout_width = "match_parent"
   android:gravity = "center"
   android:layout_height = "match_parent"
   tools:context = ".MainActivity"
   android:orientation = "vertical">
   <WebView
      android:id = "@+id/web_view"
      android:layout_width = "match_parent"
      android:layout_height = "match_parent" />
</LinearLayout>

and Create WebviewActivity.java

import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.os.Build;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.RequiresApi;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.view.View;
import android.webkit.WebChromeClient;
import android.webkit.WebSettings;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;
import android.widget.EditText;
public class WebviewActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
   @Override
   protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.webview);
      final ProgressDialog progressDialog = new ProgressDialog(this);
      progressDialog.setMessage("Loading Data...");
      progressDialog.setCancelable(false);
      WebView web_view = findViewById(R.id.web_view);
      web_view.requestFocus();
      web_view.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
      String myPdfUrl = "YOURASSETPATH";
      String url = "https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded = true&url = "+myPdfUrl;
      web_view.loadUrl(url);
      web_view.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
         @Override
         public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            view.loadUrl(url);
            return true;
         }
      });
      web_view.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {
         public void onProgressChanged(WebView view, int progress) {
            if (progress < 100) {
               progressDialog.show();
            }
            if (progress = = 100) {
               progressDialog.dismiss();
            }
         }
      });
   }
}

Tried this with my asset path as String myPdfUrl = "file:///android_asset/Guide.pdf"; and it shows error 400 — Malhotra, Jun 12 '21 at 15:54
or try to paste url in (cloud)drive and you use WebView to load this simple way — Elango, Jun 12 '21 at 16:39

Android Failed to Show PDF using AssetManager

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