A File Opener Plugin for Cordova (The Original Version)

This plugin will open a file on your device file system with its default application.

Requirements

Android 4 or higher / iOS 6 or higher
Cordova 3.0 or higher

Installation

cordova plugin add https://github.com/pwlin/cordova-plugin-file-opener2

PhoneGap Build

This Plugin is also available in PhoneGap Build Repository. Go to https://build.phonegap.com/ And search for io.github.pwlin.cordova.plugins.fileopener2 (There are a couple of other forks out there which are mostly out of date. Make sure to download the one with the exact same id as mentioned above)

Usage

Open an APK install dialog:

<script>
    cordova.plugins.fileOpener2.open(
        '/sdcard/Download/gmail.apk', 
        'application/vnd.android.package-archive'
    );
</script>

Open a PDF document with the default PDF reader and optional callback object:

<script>
    cordova.plugins.fileOpener2.open(
	    '/sdcard/Download/starwars.pdf', 
	    'application/pdf', 
	    { 
		    error : function(errorObj) { 
			    alert('Error status: ' + errorObj.status + ' - Error message: ' + errorObj.message); 
		    },
		    success : function () {
			    alert('file opened successfully'); 				
		    }
	    }
    );
</script>

Notes

For properly opening a PDF file, you must already have a PDF reader (Acrobat Reader, Foxit Mobile PDF, etc. ) installed on your mobile device. Otherwise this will not work
It is reported that in iOS, you might need to remove <preference name="iosPersistentFileLocation" value="Library" /> from your config.xml

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