PDF Viewer in Mobile?

Mobile
1

There appears to be no PDF viewer in Mobile.

If I have the PDF's base64 (it is in Retool Storage) is there a way to maybe spawn the phone's PDF viewer so my user can see it?

2

You can pass the base64 contents to the utils.downloadFile API, which will open the system share sheet and the PDF file can be opened with any installed app. On iOS I found the "Markup" action in the share sheet is pretty good for viewing a PDF file.

3

I am probably missing something obvious, but this does not work in IDE or on my phone. I am not getting an error. I have verified that the values are correct using a console.log().

utils.downloadFile({
      base64Binary: restGetFileContents.data.base64Data, 
      fileName: listProjectFiles.selectedItem.file_name,
      fileType: listProjectFiles.selectedItem.file_type
  })

Edit: To clarify, nothing at all happens when this is run.

4

@bradlymathews - it looks like utils.downloadFile doesn't work on web mobile (but does work on native mobile)! We're working on it :slight_smile:

https://community.retool.com/t/using-utils-downloadfile-in-mobile/21001/16