Android view for displaying PDFs rendered via Pdfium, with gestures, zoom, and double‑tap support. This fork modernizes the build, publishing, and dependencies for Android SDK 35 and Maven Central.
- Min SDK 28, target/compile SDK 35
- Gradle 8.7, AGP 8.6.0
- Published to Maven Central under
io.github.bluecodesystems
Add repositories and dependency:
repositories { mavenCentral() }
dependencies {
implementation 'io.github.bluecodesystems:AndroidPdfViewer:2.0.0'
}JitPack (alternative):
repositories { maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' } }
dependencies {
implementation 'com.github.BlueCodeSystems:AndroidPdfViewer:2.0.0'
}Library for displaying PDF documents on Android, with animations, gestures, zoom and double tap support.
It is based on Pdfium for decoding PDF files. Licensed under Apache License 2.0.
- Merge PR #714 with optimized page load
- Merge PR #776 with fix for max & min zoom level
- Merge PR #722 with fix for showing right position when view size changed
- Merge PR #703 with fix for too many threads
- Merge PR #702 with fix for memory leak
- Merge PR #689 with possibility to disable long click
- Merge PR #628 with fix for hiding scroll handle
- Merge PR #627 with
fitEachPageoption - Merge PR #638 and #406 with fixed NPE
- Merge PR #780 with README fix
- Update compile SDK and support library to 28
- Update Gradle and Gradle Plugin
- Replaced
Contants.PRELOAD_COUNTwithPRELOAD_OFFSET - Removed
PDFView#fitToWidth()(variant without arguments) - Removed
Configurator#invalidPageColor(int)method as invalid pages are not rendered - Removed page size parameters from
OnRenderListener#onInitiallyRendered(int)method, as document may have different page sizes - Removed
PDFView#setSwipeVertical()method
Add the view to your layout:
<com.github.barteksc.pdfviewer.PDFView
android:id="@+id/pdfView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>Load a PDF from assets (or file/uri/stream):
val pdfView = findViewById<PDFView>(R.id.pdfView)
pdfView.fromAsset("sample.pdf")
.enableSwipe(true)
.swipeHorizontal(false)
.enableDoubletap(true)
.defaultPage(0)
.enableAnnotationRendering(false)
.spacing(0)
.pageFitPolicy(FitPolicy.WIDTH)
.load()See the sample module for a working example.
- JDK 17+
- Android SDK 35, Build Tools 35.0.0
- NDK 26.2.11394342 (via
gradle.propertiesasandroid.ndkVersion)
By default this fork depends on com.github.BlueCodeSystems:PdfiumAndroid:v2.0.0.
You can override it at build time:
./gradlew :android-pdf-viewer:assembleRelease \
-PPDFIUM_GROUP=com.github.BlueCodeSystems \
-PPDFIUM_ARTIFACT=PdfiumAndroid \
-PPDFIUM_VERSION=v2.0.0Or set in gradle.properties:
PDFIUM_GROUP=com.github.BlueCodeSystems
PDFIUM_ARTIFACT=PdfiumAndroid
PDFIUM_VERSION=v2.0.0
- Clean + build:
./gradlew clean build - Library AAR (release):
./gradlew :android-pdf-viewer:assembleRelease- Output:
android-pdf-viewer/build/outputs/aar/android-pdf-viewer-release.aar
- Output:
- Sample app (debug):
./gradlew :sample:assembleDebug
Local Maven:
./gradlew :android-pdf-viewer:publishToMavenLocalMaven Central (bundle zip for manual upload):
./gradlew -PcentralBundle=true -PuseGpgCmd=true \
:android-pdf-viewer:publishMavenPublicationToCentralBundleRepository \
:android-pdf-viewer:generateCentralBundleChecksums \
:android-pdf-viewer:zipCentralBundleSonatype (staging → release):
export ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_sonatypeUsername='TOKEN_USER'
export ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_sonatypePassword='TOKEN_PASS'
./gradlew :android-pdf-viewer:publish -PuseGpgCmd=true -PcentralRelease=true
./gradlew closeAndReleaseRepositorynamespaceis configured in Gradle.packageattribute in AndroidManifest is removed and must not be added.
See CHANGELOG.md for release notes. Current version: 2.0.0
Apache License 2.0
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
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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