To see documents using cordova a plugin is available called
DocumentHandler
using this you can directly open a remote files of type pdf,docx,xlsx,ppt,txt
to install the plugin:
ionic plugin add https://github.com/ti8mag/DocumentHandler.git
after installing to view a document use the following snippet:
window.handleDocumentWithURL(function() { console.log('success'); },
function(error) { console.log('failure'); if (error == 53) { console.log('No app that handles this file type.'); } },
"path-to-file");
path can be a local path or a remote path
if you want to
download and then show you need to use
FileTransfer and
File cordova API's first to get the file and then you can use DocumentHandler plug-in to show a file
ionic plugin add cordova-plugin-file // file is to choose local storage location
ionic plugin add cordova-plugin-file-transfer // file-transfer to download a file
use the below code to download and show
var fileTransfer = new FileTransfer();
var uri = encodeURI("http://media.metro.net/riding_metro/bus_overview/images/230.pdf");
$window.alert("uri:"+uri);
console.log("uri:"+uri);
var store = cordova.file.dataDirectory;
var fileName = "365.pdf";
fileTransfer.download(
uri,
store+fileName,
function(entry) {
$window.alert("download complete: " + entry.toURL());
console.log("download complete: " + entry.toURL());
window.handleDocumentWithURL(function() { console.log('success'); },
function(error) { console.log('failure'); if (error == 53) { console.log('No app that handles this file type.'); } },
entry.toURL());
},
function(error) {
$window.alert("download error source " + error.source+"download error source " + error.source);
console.log("download error source " + error.source);
console.log("download error target " + error.target);
console.log("upload error code" + error.code);
},
false,
{
headers: {
"Authorization": "Basic dGVzdHVzZXJuYW1lOnRlc3RwYXNzd29yZA=="
}
}
);
DocumentHandler gives additional options to share the files. good & easy to use plugin
Note: it uses quicklook framework in ios, and in android it give a list of open with options to open the doc
