Open a document

You have a few options to open a document using Xamarin - Please choose one of Android, iOS and Forms to start with viewing a document

Open & display PDFs with Xamarin.Android

We can include the images from the basics open document overview here

Show document in an activity
You can open a document in a DocumentActivity with configurable preset UI

Show document in a fragment
You can open a document in a PdfViewTabHostFragment with a higher degree of customizability and interactive UI

Show document in a view
Start with PdfViewCtrl, the most basic viewing element and build the UI and functionality yourself

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