PDFCreatorAndroid

Simple library to generate and view PDF in Android.

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A simple library to create and view PDF with zero dependency Or native code.

Add it in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:

	allprojects {
		repositories {
			...
			maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
		}
	}
Gradle

Step 2. Add the dependency

	dependencies {
	        implementation 'com.github.tejpratap46:PDFCreatorAndroid:1.0'
	}
Gradle

Try It

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Concept

  • Android has capability to print documents to PDF, this library simplifies those API's to generate PDF easily.
  • At basic level, API renders Views to PDF. To create A PDF with pages we need to submit views exactly height of one page, any view larges then that that will be trimmed.
  • This library creates pages by adding views to a parent view unitil the next view is about to exceed current page. If next view exceeds current page, that view will be added to new page.

Implementation

  1. PDF creater uses views which can be rendered, So we need to exted an activity in order to create activity.
  2. Create a Empty Activity without any layout and extend it with PDFCreatorActivity. Do not set use setContentView(int resourceId) inside your created activity.
  3. There are 3 abstract methods you have to override.
    1. getHeaderView()
      • This will be header for PDF and will be added to each page. (Use PDFHeaderView if )
    2. getBodyViews()
      • This will return a PDFBody which consist of list of views which can be broken between pages.
    3. onNextClicked()
      • This is a handler method to get callback when user taps on Next.
  4. In onCreate of you activity, you have to call createPDF(String fileName, PDFUtilListener listener). It will generate PDF and give you a PDF file in callback (if success). After receiving callback you can close activity and do whatever you need to do with PDF.
  5. This library also provides PDFUtil.pdfToBitmap(File pdfFile) method to get image preview of all pages of sepcified PDF file.

Available Views

  1. TextView -> PDFTextView
  2. VerticalView -> PDFVerticalView
  3. HorizontalView -> PDFHorizontalView
  4. ImageView -> PDFImageView
  5. TableView -> PDFTableView
  6. Saperator -> PDFLineSaperatorView

Advanced

If you cannot find some methods of a View Class inside PDFView class you can get view by calling pdfView.getView() on any available PDFView class and then update view properties.

For example Android TextView support setting html to TextView which is not available in PDFTextView, to do that see example below:

PDFTextView pdfIconLicenseView = new PDFTextView(getApplicationContext(), PDFTextView.PDF_TEXT_SIZE.H3);
Spanned icon8Link = Html.fromHtml("Icon from <a href='https://icons8.com'>https://icons8.com</a>");
pdfIconLicenseView.getView().setText(icon8Link);
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Another example, Set gravity to View

pdfIconLicenseView.getView().setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL);
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Advanced, Proceed with caution :warning:

This is a unfinished feature, Use only for basic cases [After using this feature you cannot add child view to your custom view].
If you want to add a custom view to PDF (such as chart or icon), you just can create your own like this:

PDFVerticalView verticalView = new PDFVerticalView(context);
verticalView.setView(View view);
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Example:

An example is created, Look at MainActivity of app.

VIEWS

  • PDFVerticalView
PDFVerticalView verticalView = new PDFVerticalView(getApplicationContext());
PDFTextView pdfTextView1 = new PDFTextView(getApplicationContext(), PDFTextView.PDF_TEXT_SIZE.P)
				.setText("TextView1");
verticalView.addView(pdfTextView1)
PDFTextView pdfTextView2 = new PDFTextView(getApplicationContext(), PDFTextView.PDF_TEXT_SIZE.P)
				.setText("TextView2");
verticalView.addView(pdfTextView2)
// Get View
LinearLayout layout = verticalView.getView();
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  • PDFHorizontalView
PDFHorizontalView horizontalView = new PDFHorizontalView(getApplicationContext());
PDFTextView pdfTextView1 = new PDFTextView(getApplicationContext(), PDFTextView.PDF_TEXT_SIZE.P)
				.setText("TextView1");
horizontalView.addView(pdfTextView1)
PDFTextView pdfTextView2 = new PDFTextView(getApplicationContext(), PDFTextView.PDF_TEXT_SIZE.P)
				.setText("TextView2");
horizontalView.addView(pdfTextView2)
// Get View
LinearLayout layout = horizontalView.getView();
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  • PDFTextView
PDFTextView pdfTextView1 = new PDFTextView(getApplicationContext(), PDFTextView.PDF_TEXT_SIZE.P)
				.setText("TextView1");
PDFTextView pdfTextView2 = new PDFTextView(getApplicationContext(), PDFTextView.PDF_TEXT_SIZE.P)
				.setText(new SpanningString("TextView2"));
// Get View
TextView textView = pdfTextView2.getView();
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  • PDFImageView
PDFImageView pdfImageView = new PDFImageView(getApplicationContext(), PDFTextView.PDF_TEXT_SIZE.P)
				.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_example);
// Get View
ImageView imageView = pdfImageView.getView();
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  • PDFTableView
String[] textInTable = {"1", "2", "3", "4"};

// Create table column headers
PDFTableView.PDFTableRowView tableHeader = new PDFTableView.PDFTableRowView(getApplicationContext());
for (String s : textInTable) {
    PDFTextView pdfTextView = new PDFTextView(getApplicationContext(), PDFTextView.PDF_TEXT_SIZE.P);
    pdfTextView.setText("Header Title: " + s);
    tableHeader.addToRow(pdfTextView);
}
// Create first row
PDFTableView.PDFTableRowView tableRowView1 = new PDFTableView.PDFTableRowView(getApplicationContext());
for (String s : textInTable) {
    PDFTextView pdfTextView = new PDFTextView(getApplicationContext(), PDFTextView.PDF_TEXT_SIZE.P);
    pdfTextView.setText("Row 1 : " + s);
    tableRowView1.addToRow(pdfTextView);
}

// PDFTableView takes table header and first row at once because if page ends after adding header then first row will be on next page. To avoid confusion to user, table header and first row is printed together.
PDFTableView tableView = new PDFTableView(getApplicationContext(), tableHeader, tableRowView1);
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
    // Create 10 rows and add to table.
    PDFTableView.PDFTableRowView tableRowView = new PDFTableView.PDFTableRowView(getApplicationContext());
    for (String s : textInTable) {
	PDFTextView pdfTextView = new PDFTextView(getApplicationContext(), PDFTextView.PDF_TEXT_SIZE.P);
	pdfTextView.setText("Row " + (i + 1) + ": " + s);
	tableRowView.addToRow(pdfTextView);
    }
    tableView.addRow(tableRowView);
}
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  • PDFLineSeparatorView
PDFLineSeparatorView lineSeparatorWhite = new PDFLineSeparatorView(getApplicationContext()).setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);
PDFLineSeparatorView lineSeparatorBlack = new PDFLineSeparatorView(getApplicationContext()).setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK);
// Get View
View separatorView = lineSeparatorWhite.getView();
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Images and PDF

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