Android-PdfMyXml

convert your android XML layouts into PDF document, works on all versions of Android.

Dependencies

• pdfjet

How to use

Option 1: Simply fork or download the project, you can also download and create .aar file yourself.

Option 2: Jitpack

Add Jitpack in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        ...
        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
    }
}

Add to your dependencies:

dependencies {
    compile 'com.github.HendrixString:Android-PdfMyXml:{Tag}' // the latest version is "v1.0.1"
}

Notable features

• should work on all Android versions
• completely scalable
• supports bitmap re usage.
• production proved code. Used in a commercial project.

Instructions

1. create XML layouts

First create XML layouts. give it dimensions in pixels (and for all it's sub views) and proportions according landscape or portrait according to ratio 1:1.41.

page1.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
                android:layout_width="2115px"
                android:layout_height="1500px"
                android:background="@color/white">
  <TextView android:id="@+id/tv_hello"
                android:textColor="@color/black"
                android:textSize="27px"
                android:textStyle="bold"
                android:padding="6px"/>

</RelativeLayout>

you can create as many as pages/templates as you need.

2. Implement a View renderer

implement your View renderer by extending AbstractViewRenderer or by anonymously instantiating it and injecting the layout id. the initView(View view) will supply you an inflated View automatically. There are other options but I wont cover it now.

AbstractViewRenderer page = new AbstractViewRenderer(context, R.layout.page1) {
    private String _text;

    public void setText(String text) {
        _text = text;
    }

    @Override
    protected void initView(View view) {
        TextView tv_hello = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.tv_hello);
         tv_hello.setText(_text);
    }
};

// you can reuse the bitmap if you want
page.setReuseBitmap(true);

3. Build the PDF document

Use PdfDocument or PdfDocument.Builder to add pages and render and run it all at background with progress bar.

PdfDocument doc            = new PdfDocument(ctx);

// add as many pages as you have
doc.addPage(page);

doc.setRenderWidth(2115);
doc.setRenderHeight(1500);
doc.setOrientation(PdfDocument.A4_MODE.LANDSCAPE);
doc.setProgressTitle(R.string.gen_please_wait);
doc.setProgressMessage(R.string.gen_pdf_file);
doc.setFileName("test");
doc.setSaveDirectory(_ctx.getExternalFilesDir(null));
doc.setInflateOnMainThread(false);
doc.setListener(new PdfDocument.Callback() {
    @Override
    public void onComplete(File file) {
        Log.i(PdfDocument.TAG_PDF_MY_XML, "Complete");
    }

    @Override
    public void onError(Exception e) {
        Log.i(PdfDocument.TAG_PDF_MY_XML, "Error");
    }
});

doc.createPdf(ctx);

or use PdfDocument.Builder

new PdfDocument.Builder(ctx).addPage(page).orientation(PdfDocument.A4_MODE.LANDSCAPE)
                         .progressMessage(R.string.gen_pdf_file).progressTitle(R.string.gen_please_wait)
                         .renderWidth(2115).renderHeight(1500)
                         .saveDirectory(_ctx.getExternalFilesDir(null));
                         .filename("test")
                         .listener(new PdfDocument.Callback() {
                             @Override
                             public void onComplete(File file) {
                                 Log.i(PdfDocument.TAG_PDF_MY_XML, "Complete");
                             }

                             @Override
                             public void onError(Exception e) {
                                 Log.i(PdfDocument.TAG_PDF_MY_XML, "Error");
                             }
                         }).create().createPdf(this);

Additional Contributors

• Sébastiaan

License

If you like it -> star or share it with others

Copyright (C) 2016 Tomer Shalev (https://github.com/HendrixString)  

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Contact Author

• [email protected]
• Google+ TomershalevMan
• Facebook - HendrixString