How to make PDF application

[Litigants Centre]

Hello,

I have a book in pdf format and want to turn into an android application. I want to develop a pdf app. The pdf document will be stored in the app not external. The.App is not for reading external pdf but only pdf resident in the,app. I will appreciate your help and assistance. Give me a guide on how to turn my pdf book into an android app. I need help with the,coding,steps. The pdf file is about 214mb.  Thanks please.

[Chris Ward]

Hi

There would not be a PDF at all then - the App would consist of the materials currently used to make the PDF.

214 mb  is absolutely huge for Android, so the Assets (Media files and possibly including text files) would need to be stored separately and loaded/unloaded into/out of the App on demand.  However, many potential Users might overlook your App because of the storage required.

Have you considered creating an e-book?

[SteveJG]

To make an eBook, you could use the advice here   eBook      https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!searchin/mitappinventortest/treasure$20island/mitappinventortest/ZOxS6LTXcGQ/XTKerHF7AwAJ

or Taifun's  

• How to read a HTML page stored as asset inside of App Inventor 

Pdf files are inherently large.  Convert your pdf to an html file or to plain text and reduce its size by a significant amount.  If your book does not contain a lot of pictures, an html or plain text version might be a reasonable way to present your book as an App Inventor application.

What you do depends on what your book contains :   text  exclusively,  text plus images.  If it contains images, the images can be made to a smaller file size.

Regards,

Steve

[Juan Antonio]

214MB!

Other ideas about PDF:

- Convert PDF to image online:

https://pdftoimage.com/

- Convert PDF to image with PDFill free:

http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html

- Compress PDF online (50%)

https://miniimagesvideos.com/pdf