Lycoris

Lycoris is an effortless PDF viewing library which provides ready-to-use PDF viewing composables fully made with and for Jetpack Compose. Depends on Retrofit2, Coil and Material Icons. Supports PDF from Raw resources, Uri and URL.

Contents

• DEMO
• NEW
• Requirements
• Usage
• Thanks to

DEMO

This can be achieved with following code (Sample in MainActivity):

// ...
Column (
  modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize()
) {
  PdfViewer (
    pdfResId = R.raw.sample_multipage,
    controlsAlignment = Alignment.CenterEnd,
  )
}
// ...

NEW(!)

PdfViewer

• Now has zoom controls instead of separate dialogs for each page
• Added iconTint and accentColor for zoom controls (NOTE: accentColor will apply with 40% alpha)
• Added controlsAlignment parameter for zoom controls positioning inside PdfViewer's box
• Added bitmapScale for upscaling/downscaling pages for better readability/performance
• Added support for documents with unordinary aspect ratios

HorizontalPagerPdfViewer

• Now marked Experimental
• Is unstable and unmaintained for now

VerticalPagerPdfViewer

• Now marked Experimental
• Is unstable and unmaintained for now

Requirements

• Add INTERNET permission to your Android Manifest

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

• [OPTIONAL] Set android:usesCleartextTraffic="true" in your Android Manifest <application> tag to enable downloading of PDF documents from unsecure http:// URLs

<application>
  ...
  android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"
  ...
</application>

• Add Jitpack to your project repositories

dependencyResolutionManagement {
  repositoriesMode.set(RepositoriesMode.FAIL_ON_PROJECT_REPOS)
  repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
  }
}

• Add lycoris to your project dependencies

dependencies {
  implementation 'com.github.arcanegolem:Lycoris:1.0.0-alpha01'
}

Usage

Module contains overloaded PdfViewer, HorizontalPagerPdfViewer and VerticalPagerPdfViewer ready-to-use composable functions, usage examples below:

WARNING: PdfViewer function utilizes LazyColumn composable.

PDF from Raw Resource

PdfViewer (
   modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
   @RawRes pdfResId: Int,
   pagesVerticalArrangement: Arrangement.Vertical = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp),
   iconTint : Color = Color.Black,
   accentColor : Color = Color.DarkGray,
   controlsAlignment: Alignment = Alignment.BottomEnd,
   bitmapScale : Int = 1
)

VerticalPagerPdfViewer (
   modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
   @RawRes pdfResId: Int,
   documentDescription : String
)

HorizontalPagerPdfViewer(
   modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
   @RawRes pdfResId: Int,
   documentDescription : String
)

PDF from Uri

PdfViewer (
   modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
   uri: Uri,
   pagesVerticalArrangement: Arrangement.Vertical = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp),
   accentColor: Color = Color.DarkGray,
   iconTint: Color = Color.Black,
   controlsAlignment: Alignment = Alignment.BottomEnd,
   bitmapScale : Int = 1
)

VerticalPagerPdfViewer(
   modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
   uri: Uri
)

HorizontalPagerPdfViewer(
   modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
   uri: Uri
)

PDF from URL

PdfViewer(
   modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
   @Url url: String,
   headers: HashMap<String, String>? = null,
   pagesVerticalArrangement: Arrangement.Vertical = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp),
   accentColor: Color = Color.DarkGray,
   iconTint: Color = Color.Black,
   controlsAlignment: Alignment = Alignment.BottomEnd,
   bitmapScale : Int = 1
)

VerticalPagerPdfViewer(
   modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
   @Url url: String
   headers: HashMap<String, String>,
)

HorizontalPagerPdfViewer(
   modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
   @Url url: String,
   headers: HashMap<String, String>
)

Thanks to

• Mikołaj Pich for preparing Lycoris for it's initial release.