How to open a Word doc from phonegap

[Kurt]

Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone knows how to open/view a MS Word doc in phonegap?
I see posts about the ChildBrowser being used for PDF's.  Will that work for MS Office docs?

Or do I need to create my own "plugin" and just call this from Android?

Any comments would help.
Thanks!
Kurt

[Fabian Boulegue]

Yes as Long as there is no Plugin you have to create it for this

[madhu latha]

Hi,

You can open word documents also using child browser plugin.

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Fabian Boulegue <fbou...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Yes as Long as there is no Plugin you have to create it for this

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[Paul Cervenka]

hi,

we're viewing all office documents (doc,docx,xls,xlsx,ppt,pptx) in our cordova app with the inAppBrowser.

br, paul

[Kurt]

Thanks Paul.

I'll give that a try

[Kurt]

Paul,

So I guess the process is to upgrade to PG 2.3.0 and read up on the InAppBrowser and use it to open a PDF, or doc, ppt, etc?
Guess that is the next thing I'll try.

Any comments would be appreciated.

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[Paul Cervenka]

Hi Kurt,

yes - or you use the "ChildBrowser" Plugin.

br, Paul

[Kurt]

Paul,

I upgraded to 2.3.0 and changed my code to use the IAB.
I am able to open a site, like www.google.com, but no PDF's.

I'm doing it like this, and I just get a white screen (no pdf).

    // hard code for now till it works.
    var fileUrl = 'file:///sdcard/Download/Menu.pdf';
    alert('attempt to open: ' + encodeURI(fileUrl));
   
    // now try inAppBrowser
    var ref = window.open(encodeURI(fileUrl), '_blank', 'location=yes');

Can you post the code snippet on how you open the PDF.

[Kerri Shotts]

Just curious, but do you have any software capable of rendering a PDF on your device?

If nothing else works, you might try pdf.js (http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/)

Not sure how well it would work on Android...

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[Paul Cervenka]

Hi Kurt,

I'm using inAppBrowser in iOS, so I've never tested, if you can view office documents on android with it.

Sorry =/

br, Paul

[Kurt]

Yes,

If I navigate to the file in the "My Files" and select a PDF, it opens it with "Open Office" and I can see the PDF, zoom in, etc.

[Francisco]

Hi Kurt,

A workaround (on Android) could be using this: https://docs.google.com/viewer

Load that url into Childbrowser with your document path then you'll get your doc rendered nicely on your device.

NOTE: Haven't tried inAppBrowser (in 2.3.0) as Paul suggested.

Good luck!

[Kurt]

Hi Francisco.

I tried your suggestion, and I just get a 404.
I'm wondering  - have you done this using a local file from the FS on your phone?

[Kurt]

Also,

I was able to view a PDF out on the net doing the call like this:

var fileUrl = ' http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.google.com%2Farchive%2Fbigtable-osdi06.pdf';
    alert('attempt to open: ' + fileUrl);
   
    // now try inAppBrowser
    var ref = window.open(fileUrl, '_blank', 'location=yes');

I "encoded" it by hand to make sure it worked... basically the copy/paste from the google website.
But it won't work for a local file.  I tried both on my phone and also my mac (firefox and chrome both give a 404 when trying to get the local file.  I guess its a permission issue.)

[Kerri Shotts]

There'd be no way for the Google viewer to get at your local file, short of you uploading to somewhere, so that's a non-starter for you, I think.

Have you tried pdf.js? It might be your best option here…

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[Kurt]

Thanks for the suggestions and help.

I can't use pdf.js as I need to support all doc types, PDF, word, Excel, etc.
I'm sure the InAppBrowser is the right way to go, just need some help getting it to work on Android (people here are using it on iOS).

[Ami Gandhi]

Hi everyone!

I am also trying to use in app browser, But when I try to open any local docx or pdf files, it just show me white screen only.

Does anyone has it's solution?