How to Create and Display PDF File in Android

I have created one Demo for Creating and Displaying PDF file in Android.


Please follow steps to create Android Project.

I have given Java and XML code as following:

MainActivity.java

package com.example;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import java.io.IOException;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.content.Intent;

import android.graphics.Bitmap;

import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;

import android.graphics.Color;

import android.net.Uri;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.os.Environment;

import android.util.Log;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.Toast;

import com.lowagie.text.Document;

import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;

import com.lowagie.text.Font;

import com.lowagie.text.HeaderFooter;

import com.lowagie.text.Image;

import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;

import com.lowagie.text.Phrase;

import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private Button createPDF , openPDF;

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 

{

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

createPDF = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);

createPDF.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

@Override

public void onClick(View v) {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

createPDF();

}

});

openPDF = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button2);

openPDF.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

@Override

public void onClick(View v) {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

openPdf();

}

});

}

public void createPDF()

{

Document doc = new Document();

try {

String path = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/PDF";

File dir = new File(path);

if(!dir.exists())

dir.mkdirs();

Log.d("PDFCreator", "PDF Path: " + path);

File file = new File(dir, "demo.pdf");

FileOutputStream fOut = new FileOutputStream(file);

PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, fOut);

//open the document

doc.open();

/* Create Paragraph and Set Font */

Paragraph p1 = new Paragraph("Hi! I am Generating my first PDF using DroidText");

/* Create Set Font and its Size */

Font paraFont= new Font(Font.HELVETICA);

paraFont.setSize(16);

p1.setAlignment(Paragraph.ALIGN_CENTER);

p1.setFont(paraFont);

//add paragraph to document    

doc.add(p1);

Paragraph p2 = new Paragraph("This is an example of a simple paragraph");

/* You can also SET FONT and SIZE like this */

Font paraFont2= new Font(Font.COURIER,14.0f,Color.GREEN);

p2.setAlignment(Paragraph.ALIGN_CENTER);

p2.setFont(paraFont2);

doc.add(p2);

/* Inserting Image in PDF */

ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getBaseContext().getResources(), R.drawable.android);

bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100 , stream);

Image myImg = Image.getInstance(stream.toByteArray());

myImg.setAlignment(Image.MIDDLE);

//add image to document

doc.add(myImg);

//set footer

Phrase footerText = new Phrase("This is an example of a footer");

HeaderFooter pdfFooter = new HeaderFooter(footerText, false);

doc.setFooter(pdfFooter);

Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Created...", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

} catch (DocumentException de) {

Log.e("PDFCreator", "DocumentException:" + de);

} catch (IOException e) {

Log.e("PDFCreator", "ioException:" + e);

} 

finally

{

doc.close();

}

}      

void openPdf()

{

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);

String path = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/PDF";

File file = new File(path, "demo.pdf");

intent.setDataAndType( Uri.fromFile( file ), "application/pdf" );

   startActivity(intent);

}

}

activity_main.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    <Button

        android:id="@+id/button2"

        android:layout_width="fill_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"

        android:layout_marginTop="100dp"

        android:text="Open PDF" />

    <Button

        android:id="@+id/button1"

        android:layout_width="fill_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"

        android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"

        android:layout_marginTop="44dp"

        android:text="Generate PDF" />

    <TextView

        android:id="@+id/textView1"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"

        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"

        android:layout_marginTop="50dp"

        android:text="@string/hello_world" />

</RelativeLayout>

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Click on AndroidPDFDemo.jar and Press CTRL+S 

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