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Opening PowerPoint and text documents on Android using Cordova

I am currently using the Corodova inappbrowser plugin to open files. It works fine on iOS, but not on Android. I found out that the Android browser does not support viewing files, so you need to use the system.

The problem I am facing is that I do not know how to get the file path.

Here is my code:

$scope.onResourceClick = function(url){
    window.open(url, '_system', 'location=no');
};

url - relative path to the file, from index.html in the www folder.

So, I think my question is: how do I get the absolute path to the file.

I am moving forward. Using the Cordon File Plugin I can get several different paths. Still not sure what to use and where exactly the file is stored.

I use cordovaFile.checkFile to check if there is a file in the path that I'm trying to make, and I just guess to see if I can get luck and find it.

$cordovaFile.checkFile(cordova.file.dataDirectory, url)
    .then(function (success) {
        alert('yay' + success);
    }, function (error) {
        alert('nah' + error);
    });

I tried

  • cordova.file.dataDirectory
  • cordova.file.applicationDirectory

and add to the end of each of them the path from the www folder to my file and just the file name. I hope I'm lucky and find the right combination with the file, because I can not find the answer exploring.

Edit:

The workflow for what I'm trying to do has changed. I now store the files on the server and using api to return the url to the file. Then download the file to the device and open it.

Currently, I have everything except the download method used.

$cordovaFile.writeFile(cordova.file.externalDataDirectory, resourceFullName, resource.DocumentURL, true)

The download method downloads only 100 bytes of the file.

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, Android PDF Powerpoints. , , . pdf.js PDF -.

. http://ngcordova.com/docs/plugins/fileTransfer/

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File Opener Plugin

window.plugins.fileOpener.open("file:///sdcard/Android/data/com.example.application/manual.pdf");
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