Will Syncfusion work for my needs. Office and PDF viewing on iOS and Android?

[Ben Levy]

There is WAY too much info to parse on the site.  Would like a quick answer.

We need to be able to VIEW (not edit or convert) Office documents and PDF's on Android and iOS.

This is Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android  (NOT Xamarin Forms)

Needs:

• View Word, Excel, PowerPoint files.  Files will be downloaded to device cache and then displayed.
• View PDF files (same as above)
• No requirement for Office or any PDF viewer to be installed on mobile device.

If someone could point me to relevant documentation for above.

If someone could let me know NuGet packages to install.

[Suriya Balamurugan]

Hi Ben,

Please find the details below,

Needs	Details
View Word files	Currently we don’t have support for Word document viewer in Xamarin platform. We have already logged this as a feature request in our database and we do not have any immediate plan to implement this feature. We will let you know when this feature has been implemented. The status of the feature can be tracked through below feedback link. https://www.syncfusion.com/feedback/3822/word-viewer As a workaround solution, we suggest you to convert the Word document to PDF using Essential DocIO library and then you can use PDFViewer control to view the converted PDF document. Please refer the below UG link to know more about Word to PDF conversion using Essential DocIO library. https://help.syncfusion.com/file-formats/docio/word-to-pdf#converting-word-to-pdf Please refer the below links to load and view the PDF document. Android - https://www.syncfusion.com/kb/11461/how-to-load-pdf-from-the-file-system https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin-android/sfpdfviewer/getting-started iOS - https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin-ios/sfpdfviewer/getting-started
View PowerPoint files	Currently we don’t have support for Presentation viewer in Xamarin platform. We have already logged this as a feature request in our database and we do not have any immediate plan to implement this feature. We will let you know when this feature has been implemented. As a workaround solution, we suggest you to convert the PowerPoint document to PDF using Essential Presentation library and then you can use PDFViewer control to view the converted PDF document. Please refer the below UG link to know more about PPTX to PDF conversion using Essential Presentation library. https://help.syncfusion.com/file-formats/presentation/presentation-to-pdf Please refer the below links to load and view the PDF document. Android - https://www.syncfusion.com/kb/11461/how-to-load-pdf-from-the-file-system https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin-android/sfpdfviewer/getting-started iOS - https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin-ios/sfpdfviewer/getting-started
View Excel & PDF files	Currently, we are checking about this requirement. We will update further details on 19th July 2022.

Regards,
Suriya Balamurugan.

[Suriya Balamurugan]

Hi Ben,

Please find the details below,

Needs	Details
View PDF files	We already have UG documentation to load and view the PDF document. Please find the links below for your reference, Xamarin.Android => https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin-android/sfpdfviewer/getting-started Xamarin .iOS => https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin-ios/sfpdfviewer/getting-started   If your requirement is only to view the PDF and not to manipulate the PDF document means, please disable the toolbar and Flatten the PDF while loading to avoid editing and converting of PDF. For more understanding, please find the below documentation link for your reference, Xamarin.Android => https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin-android/sfpdfviewer/built-in-toolbar https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin-android/sfpdfviewer/getting-started#rendering-the-appearance-content-of-annotations Xamarin .iOS => https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin-ios/sfpdfviewer/built-in-toolbar https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin-ios/sfpdfviewer/getting-started#rendering-the-appearance-content-of-annotations   Please find below NuGet package details to install, Xamarin.Android => https://www.nuget.org/packages/Syncfusion.Xamarin.SfPdfViewer.Android Xamarin.iOS => https://www.nuget.org/packages/Syncfusion.Xamarin.SfPdfViewer.IOS
View Excel files	Currently we don’t have support for Excel/Spreadsheet viewer in the Xamarin platform. We have already logged this as a feature request in our database and we do not have any immediate plan to implement this feature. We will let you know when this feature has been implemented. The status of the feature can be tracked through below feedback link. https://www.syncfusion.com/feedback/3813/spreadsheet-control

Regards,
Suriya Balamurugan.