Getting started with XFINIUM.PDF Viewer in Android applications

This tutorial will show how to get started with XFINIUM.PDF Viewer in Xamarin.Android applications.

1. Create a new Android application.

2. Add references to xfinium.pdf.xamarin.android.dll, xfinium.pdf.render.xamarin.android.dll, xfinium.pdf.view.xamarin.android.dll, xfinium.graphics.xamarin.android.skia.dll and skiasharp.dll in your project. Alternatively, for SkiaSharp.dll, you can also add a reference to SkiaSharp nuget package version 1.58.1.0.

3. Open your activity’s axml file.

4. Inside the layout code add this part:

  <xfinium.pdf.view.PdfCoreView
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent"
      android:id="@+id/pdfView" />

The ‘xfinium.pdf.view.PdfCoreView‘ tag is case sensitive.

5. Add a test PDF file to your project and set its build action to EmbeddedResource.

6. In your activity’s OnCreate method create a PdfVisualDocument object, set the pdfView.Document property with the PdfVisualDocument object and load a file in the document.

pdfView = FindViewById(Resource.Id.pdfView);
pdfView.GraphicRendererFactory = new Xfinium.Graphics.Skia.SkiaRendererFactory();
pdfView.Document = new PdfVisualDocument();
Assembly asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
Stream pdfStream = asm.GetManifestResourceStream("XFINIUMPDFViewerForAndroid.xfinium.pdf");
pdfView.Document.Load(pdfStream);
pdfStream.Close();

7. Run the application.