Open linked PDF from Webview within the APP

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Hi all,

Im pretty new to Expo and really LOVE it!
What I couldnt find yet is an answer to the following question:

I’m building a wrapper app for my responsive webpage.
Hence I’m using react-native-webview to display the page in the Expo app. So far so good.

I have several linked PDFs (normal HTML links like Link) which I want to open directly within my generated app, as a separate view.

Is there such a possibility? I found the librarys react-native-pdf, react-native-view-pdf, but those seem to be native libraries which do NOT work :frowning: rn-pdf-reader-js seems outdated and only compatible with older Expo SDK versions.

I do want to prevent that the Link opens in the external browser of the user and from there first downloads into the file system… I want to display it directly.

What would be the easiest way to achieve that?

Thank you soo much!!!

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