SDPDFViewer

Visualize PDF documents in Smart Devices aplications

The external object sca.SDPDFViewer is implemented for Android and iOS platforms and it works both online and offline mode.

Main characteristics:

  • Works online and offline
  • Posibility to add markers to the pages (iOS only)
  • Print PDF (iOS only)
  • Send PDF by email. (iOS only)

 

Properties:

In the Startup Object it’s necessary to set the value of the Multidex Build property to True.

This enables building app's with over the limit of 64k methods, which can be reached easily when using many third party extensions.

 

Demo: you can try it running downloading our app Simplifica Labs where you can find other controls and external objects too, Simplifica Labs

How is it used? Event 'ViewPDFDocument' scaSDPdfViewer.Open(&url) Endevent     Next, examples of the control being used in iPhone and iPad.    

 

Installation:   

  • Copy the folder SDPdfViewer to <GX INSTALLATION FOLDER>\UserControls

  • Copy the folder Android to <GX INSTALLATION FOLDER>

  • If the file GXCustomExternalObjectsMapper.m already exist in the folder <GX INSTALLATION FOLDER>\iOS\Templates\iOS_Genexus\Classes then add the followings lines to the method externalObjectClassNameForObjectName,

if ([name isEqualToString:@"scaSDPdfViewer"]) return @"scaSDPdfViewerHandler";

if the file doesn`t exist, copy the files GXCustomExternalObjectsMapper.h and GXCustomExternalObjectsMapper.m to the folder 

  • Copy the file scaSDPdfViewerHandler.h and <GX INSTALLATION FOLDER>\iOS\Templates\iOS_Genexus\Classes

  • Copy the file scaSDPdfViewerHandler.m and <GX INSTALLATION FOLDER>\iOS\Templates\iOS_Genexus\Classes

  • Open with a text editor the file GX INSTALLATION FOLDER>\iOS\iOS.impl, for example Notepad++.

Add the followings lines to the bootstrapping section:

  <Template Id="iOS_Genexus\Classes\GXCustomExternalObjectsMapper.h" Output="iOS\Genexus\Classes\GXCustomExternalObjectsMapper.h"/> <Template Id="iOS_Genexus\Classes\GXCustomExternalObjectsMapper.m" Output="iOS\Genexus\Classes\GXCustomExternalObjectsMapper.m"/> <Template Id="iOS_Genexus\Classes\scaSDPdfViewerHandler.h" Output="iOS\Genexus\Classes\scaSDPdfViewerHandler.h"/> <Template Id="iOS_Genexus\Classes\scaSDPdfViewerHandler.m" Output="iOS\Genexus\Classes\scaSDPdfViewerHandler.m"/>

  • Edit the file <GX INSTALLATION FOLDER>\Android\FlexibleClient\src\com\artech\application\MyApplication.java adding to the  method connectExternalApis to the following line 

new ExternalApiDefinition("scaSDPdfViewer", "com.simplifica.external.pdfviewer.PdfViewerAPI"), //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$

  • Edit the file <GX INSTALLATION FOLDER>\Android\Templates\AndroidManifest.xml adding the following code:

        <activity android:name="com.artifex.mupdf.MuPDFActivity" android:label="@string/app_name" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"> </activity>

  • Execute <GX INSTALLATION FOLDER>\GeneXus /install

  • Open GeneXus and import the XPZ of example.

  NOTE: To use the EO you should have in a SDPanel the UC sca.SDPdfViewer

IMPORTANT

If you want to generate with iOS in GeneXus versions below Upgrade 5 you must do the following steps:

  1. - Go to the folder: ...\GeneXus_PDF\iOS\Templates\iOS_Genexus.
  2. - Find the file: MainName-Info.plist
  3. - Edit the file adding the followings lines:

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key> <dict> <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key><true/> </dict>