Crashes on Android

[guirip]

Hello

I tried to open a simple one page PDF file from:

• external url (e.g basic http://www...../test.pdf)
• local file using relative path (e.g ./test.pdf)
• local file using absolute pah (e.g file:///android_asset/www/test.pdf)

Below is the result of tests using [email protected] plugin on android (app built using cordova 7.1.0):

// Android 7 / 8: KO - app instantly crashes
// Android 6: OK
handleDocumentWithURL(function(){ console.info('success'); }, function(){ console.error(arguments); }, EXTERNAL_URL);

// Android 6 / 7 / 8: KO - 1 (undefined error)
handleDocumentWithURL(function(){ console.info('success'); }, function(){ console.error(arguments); }, LOCAL_RELATIVE_PATH);

// Android 6 / 7 / 8: KO - app instantly crashes
handleDocumentWithURL(function(){ console.info('success'); }, function(){ console.error(arguments); }, LOCAL_ABSOLUTE_PATH);

Note: We've used the exact same version of the plugin on an app during summer 2016 (1 year and a half ago) and it is working on Android 6 / 7 / 8, so I suppose this plugin just lacks maintenance to be compatible with recent Cordova versions?

Alternatives:

• I've tried Mozilla's PDF.js, which is not cordova related but a full javascript library to display PDF files, but I did not managed to come to anything satisfying (no UI, no interaction...), seems very limited.
• sitewaerts cordova-plugin-document-viewer requires you to install a third party PDF reader app (developed by sitewaerts)
• cordova-plugin-file-opener2 : got an error: File not found for each one of the 3 scenarios described above.
• vanilla JS, only works for external URLs (see https://www.raymondcamden.com/2016/06/26/linking-to-pdfs-in-cordova-apps/): window.open(decodeURI(EXTERNAL_URL), '_system', 'location=no');

[mrHassanRaza]

https://github.com/PolarCape/polarcape-cordova-plugin-document-handler
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