Displaying a PDF from a URL in Nativescript

Question

I'm trying to display a PDF from a url using a webview. I've tried loading it using the src attribute and the url attribute. I've also attempted to load it from the onLoaded event in Javascript, but still no luck...Is there a better way to load a PDF doc in a Nativescript app? The webview loads something small like the google url with out any issues. Here's some of the code I've tried.

// did not work 
<WebView row="0" id="eula-view" src="https://somewebsite/eula/foo.pdf"/>

// did not work 
<WebView row="0" id="eula-view" url="https://somewebsite/eula/foo.pdf" />

//worked fine 
<WebView row="0" id="eula-view" url="http://google.com" />

Loading from JS rather than from xml

//did not work 
exports.viewLoaded = function (args) {    
    var page = args.object;
    var webview = page.getViewById("eula-view");
    webview.url = "https://somewebsite/eula/foo.pdf"; 
}; 

// worked fine
exports.viewLoaded = function (args) {    
    var page = args.object;
    var webview = page.getViewById("eula-view");
    webview.url = "http://google.com"; 
};

Answer 1

I've created a NativeScript plugin for displaying PDF files on iOS and Android. I haven't personally tried the WebView approach with Google Docs, because I need to display PDF files from the local device, and don't want to require an active Internet connection.

The plugin is nativescript-pdf-view. Usage is like this:

Plain NativeScript:

<Page
 xmlns="http://schemas.nativescript.org/tns.xsd" loaded="pageLoaded"
 xmlns:pdf="nativescript-pdf-view">
  <StackLayout>
    <pdf:PDFView src="{{ pdfSrc }}"/>
  </StackLayout>
</Page>

Angular 2

// somewhere in the JavaScript/TypeScript:
import 'nativescript-pdf-view';

// in the view:
<PDFView [src]="pdfSrc"></PDFView>