Quick start - view a document in Xamarin

This guide demonstrates how to display a PDF. To begin working with Apryse SDK, you must have first added it to your project .

1. Apryse must be initialized before using any Apryse classes. This only needs to be done once. This is done as shown:

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   PDFNet.Initialize("<key-goes-here>");

2. At the top of your source file, import PDFNet and Tools.

   using pdftron;
   using pdftron.PDF.Controls;

3. The following shows how to create a document viewer, set the document to display, and present it on screen.

   // Create a PTDocumentController
   var documentController = new PTDocumentController();
   
   // The PTDocumentController must be in a navigation controller before a document can be opened
   var navigationController = new UINavigationController(documentController);
   
   // Open an existing local file URL.
   var fileURL = NSBundle.MainBundle.GetUrlForResource("sample", "pdf");
   
   bool success = documentController.OpenDocumentWithURL(fileURL);
   
   // Show navigation (and document) controller.
   this.PresentViewController(navigationController, true, null);