What is the best way to have users view a pdf document in Adalo?

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I’ve tried two ways to have a pdf book available for users:

  1. I uploaded the file to a record in the database and linked it to the web view on the screen.
  2. I linked the external URL to a property in a record on the database and linked it to the web view on the screen.

With both of these methods, the pdf still opens in an external browser for users. I’m wondering if there is a better way to do this?

2

good question, use the URL from the file and input it into the Web View Component. This way it will show the PDF.

3

Thanks for your response! I have tried this and it shows the pdf on the app on web preview but not on mobile. It still opens into an external browser. Is there another way to make the book available for reading?

4

We had the same issue with our adalo app and we ended up using a third party component (a document previewer from itsmi.store). Hope that helps!

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The third-party options mentioned here have had reliability issues for a while. I’m building a new native PDF Viewer component for the Adalo Marketplace — built specifically for this use case, with iOS, Android, and Web support, fully inline, no external browser.

Sign up to be first to know when it launches: https://adalo-pdfviewer.pages.dev

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TszABlJqnw