For example, if your view contains a listview, then it is natural that you include a button to delete or increment items in the listview. In this step, you create an identical layout to the one you want to convert to PDF and in this copy of the layout you remove anything that is not needed in a PDF version of your view and these includes the Action bar, any edit, delete button, etc. I listed this step as optional but it could be very helpful. Please be aware that you will have to take an image of you screen differently depending on whether your view is Linear Layout or Relative Layout and I will show you both in step 3. Most times, if you are going down the path of converting an Android view to Pdf, it is because you already have a complex layered view in Android and you do have the time or desire to layout the same view in Pdf from scratch. This is your standard Android view which captures all the information that you need to save/show. This step is self explanatory, this is where you create the Android view that suits your app needs.
Let‘s take a look at each of these steps.
If you do not have the time to learn about all the intricacies of programmatic PDF, then I will be glad to provide this service to you so you can focus on the rest of your app. If you need a high quality PDF in Android, then you need to roll up your sleeve and dive deep into the PDF API, again this book iText in Action will help you a lot. That is the preferred way, today I want to show you how you can create PDF quicker by turning the Android view you already have to an image and then converting that image to a PDF, even though this is quicker, please be aware that it will not produce a high quality PDF. In my last post, I showed how to create a PDF in Android from scratch. In this blog post, I will show you how to convert an Android View to PDF using iTextg library.
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