# How can I view a PDF file?

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-view-a-pdf-file/52957>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [October 21, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-view-a-pdf-file/52957 "2018-10-21T03:05:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Salman.S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@Salman.S](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Salman.S)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-view-a-pdf-file/52957/1 "2018-10-21T03:05:50Z")

</div>

Hi dear, I am Salman Sijabat.  
I am building my book app ios projects. Can anyone help me how my view pdf file.  
I attached addres my book app ios project.  
[https://x.thunkable.com/copy/101eb85ea79b0d0c2debec30d7c2f059](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/101eb85ea79b0d0c2debec30d7c2f059)  
Thank you very much for your help

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Mark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mark/32/18133_2.png) [@Mark](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Mark)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-view-a-pdf-file/52957/2 "2018-11-13T17:51:58Z")

</div>

Salman,

There is a way to do this currently but it only works on iOS devices, not Android. On iOS you can use a Web Viewer component to view PDF files. You can put a link to the PDF file in the URL field of the component or you can upload the PDF file to your project. See [here](https://docs.thunkable.com/projects/assets) for how to upload files.

If you choose to upload the files, you simply have to put the name of file in the Web Viewer’s URL field. [Here](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/85951fa27ed251c1a100f462230a21da) is an example of using uploaded files in a Web Viewer. It doesn’t contain PDF files but the idea is the same.

Feel free to reply to this message if you need more help.

-Mark

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![mosaicartsound1tg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@mosaicartsound1tg](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mosaicartsound1tg)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 4:51am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-view-a-pdf-file/52957/3 "2020-04-25T04:51:14Z")

</div>

Hi Mark,  
I understood I cannot use Web viewer component to view PDF file in Android, it gives me an ALERT…Sorry, an error occurred.  
could you please tell me how solve this problem in Android?  
Thank you!  
Paolo

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 5:41am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-view-a-pdf-file/52957/4 "2020-04-25T05:41:12Z")

</div>

Host the pdf on cloudinary. Link to it from there on the webviewer

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![mosaicartsound1tg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@mosaicartsound1tg](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mosaicartsound1tg)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 5:55am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-view-a-pdf-file/52957/5 "2020-04-25T05:55:52Z")

</div>

thanks Jared1

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:31am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-view-a-pdf-file/52957/6 "2024-11-08T11:31:47Z")

</div>