Preview downloaded file with "Open With..."

[Novern Holder]

Good day guys!

I had a quick skim of the forums but couldn't find what I was looking for.

I have created an app within VS2012 with the Telerik plugin.
Currently the app downloads a directory of files a user has uploaded, I want to add functionality so that when the user clicks on a file, the "Open With Default App" window pops up. Purely so the user can preview their file in an external app.

Has anyone done this before, or maybe even know where  would be a good place to start?

Thanks in advance!

[Kaloyan]

Hi Andre,

Basically, this depends on the file types you would like to open inside your application. You can give a try the following custom Cordova plugins and see if they works for your scenario:

• The OpenFileNative plugin
• The File Opener plugin

Another approach would be to use a custom URL schemes for all the file types you will have downloaded in the application. You can check our sample about this.

If none of the above works, please let me know what are the exact file types you would like to open from within your hybrid application and I will try to assist you further.

Regards,
Kaloyan
Telerik

 

 

[Novern Holder]

Good day,

Thank you very much.

I will try these as soon as I get time to work on the project again.

Regards,
André