Displaying PDF's and other non-HTML content in a Sencha Touch App

[jhoweaa]

I'm working on creating an iPad friendly version of a web application my company sells. One of the main features of the web application is the ability to search for information provided by our company and then being able to download some application specific PDF's and other files. In the web application, we simply do a

location.href = report_url;

to get the browser to download and display the report. However, this doesn't work very well on the iPad. For one thing, the user needs to go 'back' to the application after viewing the PDF. Also, we would like our iPad app to run without the status bar in which case there wouldn't be a back button at all.

Is there a recommended way for Sencha Touch applications to download and display content such as PDF's?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Jim

[twisted_zero]

I have the same question

[mitchellsimoens]

Try opening up a new window. Using PDF within an app is not going to give a good user experience at all.

[twisted_zero]

but i want a button, when the user taps it, the download should start (to the device).
how to do that?

[mitchellsimoens]

mobile safari won't let you download to the device.

[jhoweaa]

Try opening up a new window. Using PDF within an app is not going to give a good user experience at all.

That works, but only if the user hasn't turned off pop-ups and if the app isn't running in standalone mode. It wouldn't be so bad if the user could whitelist a URL and selectively allow pop-ups, but if pop-ups are turned off, the user doesn't even get a notification that anything happened.

Jim

[ydi]

I'm using this solution in browser, but I d'ont have solution for sencha app :

download: function(doc_url, title) {         
         var link = document.createElement('a');
         link.setAttribute('id', 'link_to_remove');
         link.setAttribute('href', doc_url);
         link.setAttribute('target','_blank');
         var clickevent = document.createEvent('Event');
         clickevent.initEvent('click', true, false);
         link.dispatchEvent(clickevent);
         return false;
    }

I hope Sencha develop a document manager.

[kmayank]

Hi,

I am also trying to achieve something similar, I want to display pdf through sencha (native app for android and iOS). Is there any workaround to display the pdf through sencha.

Thanks,
Mayank

[digeridoopoo]

Doesn't this help? It's only just been released...

http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...ure-JavaScript

[kmayank]

thanks for sharing the link will try this out in a little while.