Manual Integration

• Android Studio

• Project specifications:

  • Minimum API: 16 (using AndroidX)
  • Compile API: 33
  • Recommended target API: 33
  • If your app is using AndroidX you will also need to add android.useAndroidX=true and android.enableJetifier=true in your gradle.properties file. You can learn more about this here .

• Apryse Android SDK

1. Extract the folder from the .zip file.

   This article will assume that the path into the extracted PDFNetAndroid library bundle is called PDFTRON_BASE

   PDFTRON_BASE=path/to/your/extraction/folder/PDFNetAndroid/

2. Create a new project on Android Studio called myApp. Find the path to the app/libs folder. If the libs folder does not exist, create one in the module (for example, myApp/app/libs)

   For the purposes of this guide, you can start with an Empty Activity.

3. Copy all of the following files into your libs directory:

   • PDFTRON_BASE/lib/full/pdftron.aar
   • PDFTRON_BASE/lib/tools.aar

   You can learn more about the different packages here .

   Now, your app/libs folder should look like this:

   app
   ├── ...
   └── libs
       ├── pdftron.aar
       └── tools.aar

4. Open the build.gradle file in your app module's directory:

   

   Edit it to include the following inside the android.defaultConfig section:

   android {
       defaultConfig {
           // ... Anything else you already had
           multiDexEnabled true
           vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true
           manifestPlaceholders = [pdftronLicenseKey:PDFTRON_LICENSE_KEY]
       }
   }

   Also edit the dependencies section and include:

   dependencies {
       // ... Anything else you had here before
   
       implementation files('libs/pdftron.aar')
       implementation files('libs/tools.aar')
   
       implementation 'androidx.legacy:legacy-support-v4:1.0.0'
       implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.3.1'
       implementation 'androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview:1.2.1'
       implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.5.0'
       implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.1.0'
       implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-extensions:2.2.0'
       implementation "androidx.preference:preference:1.1.0"
   
       implementation "commons-io:commons-io:2.4"
       implementation "org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.5"
       implementation "com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.0"
       implementation "io.reactivex.rxjava2:rxjava:2.2.2"
       implementation 'io.reactivex.rxjava2:rxandroid:2.1.0'
       implementation "com.github.clans:fab:1.6.4"
       implementation "androidx.exifinterface:exifinterface:1.3.3"
       implementation "com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.71828"
       implementation "org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup:tagsoup:1.2.1"
   
       implementation 'androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.1'
       implementation "androidx.room:room-runtime:2.4.2"
       annotationProcessor "androidx.room:room-compiler:2.4.2"
   }

5. In your project's root directory, find the gradle.properties file. Copy the following line to it:

   # Add the PDFTRON_LICENSE_KEY variable here. 
   # For trial purposes leave it blank.
   # For production add a valid commercial license key.
   PDFTRON_LICENSE_KEY=

6. Open your AndroidManifest.xml file and add a <metadata> tag inside the <application> tag to be a placeholder for the license key:

   <application>
   <!-- Add license key in meta-data tag here. This should be inside the application tag. -->
       <meta-data
           android:name="pdftron_license_key"
           android:value="${pdftronLicenseKey}"/>
   </application>

Apryse for Android contains the following key files and folders:

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