Forgive me for this stupid question. I just transitioned from iPhone to Pixel (GrapheneOS) and I’m curious why there isn’t a built in PDF viewer like on iPhone? It feels like you have to open things externally pretty often, but I figure there’s a reason for that. I haven’t used Android in many years and I recently developed an interest for the technical aspects of things, so again, do forgive this beginners question.
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Retail Android ships with Google’s proprietary PDF viewer. GrapheneOS isn’t the default experience.
GrapheneOS has an actively maintained PDF viewer app though.
It’s a secure PDF designed to sandbox the file before launching it, but unfortunately it’s painful to use: no page scrolling, and no dark content view…
Easier to maintain and update when the reader is an app not part of the core OS.
Because… Fuck Adobe. This is my near-daily mantra.
You really should ask this in
http://discuss.grapheneos.org/
https://lemmy.ml/c/grapheneos.It’s a very helpful community. Someone will either explain why or point you to a FAQ. I bet it has something to do with the built in reader being insecure.
Edited… I totally gave the wrong url. Sorry. Corrected.