OpenFile Cordova Plug-In

What is it?

PhoneGap / Cordova plugin that adds possibility to open local files on other applications. Eg. open PDF-file you have downloaded in device's PDF viewer.

This plug-in will be usually used with plug-in com.apache.cordova.file-transfer used to first load files to device, to be then displayed with help of OpenFile plug-in.

What is the license?

Plug-in is released with Apache 2.0 license. Allowing it to be used also in closed source commercial projects.

Authors

Windows support is written by Doan Isakov doan.isakov(at)gmail.com, he has also provided improvements to initial iOS implementation.

Other parts are written by Sami Viitanen sami.viitanen(at)gmail.com

Copyrights

Copyrights belong to people listed in files. Files without copyright information are copyrighted by Sami Viitanen [email protected]

Supported Platforms

Currently Android, iOS, Windows Phone 8 and Windows (8+).

I'm more than happy to add other platforms if patches are provided with license compatible with Apache 2.0.

Installation

Add plug-in to your PhoneGap/Cordova project with:

phonegap plugin add org.vaadin.alump.openfile

or

cordova plugin add org.vaadin.alump.openfile

Plan is to release plug-in in cordova plug-in repository soon, to make it easier to install it

How to use it

In JavaScript (easiest way):

window.openfile.open(filePath);

Same from inside GWT JSNI:

$wnd.openfile.open(filePath);

Full JavaScript example, with custom result callbacks defined:

window.openfile.open(filePath,
     function() {
         console.log('File open successfully');
     },
     function(error) {
         console.log('Failed to open file: ' + error);
     }
);

Release History

0.2.1 (2015-11-25)

• Converting to npm repository

0.2.0 (2015-05-09)

• Improvements to iOS implementation. Thanks to Doan Isakov!
• Windows 8 (universal) support added. Kudos to Doan Isakov!

0.1.0 (2015-03-13)

• Initial release
• Android, iOS and Windows Phone 8 support

Planned features

• Proper error codes
• Adding new support to new platforms