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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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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Easier to maintain and update when the reader is an app not part of the core OS.

[–] henchman2019@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Retail Android ships with Google's proprietary PDF viewer. GrapheneOS isn't the default experience.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

GrapheneOS has an actively maintained PDF viewer app though.

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer

[–] electro1@infosec.pub 1 points 4 months ago

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..

[–] f1error@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 months ago

Because... Fuck Adobe. This is my near-daily mantra.