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7/17/2026

How to Display a PDF Inside Your Adalo App (iOS, Android & Web)
Short summary
A practical guide to displaying PDFs inside Adalo no-code apps, covering why common workarounds (WebView, external links, in-app browser) fail on mobile. The author introduces a new native PDF Viewer component for the Adalo Marketplace that uses PDFKit on iOS and PdfRenderer on Android, supports pinch-to-zoom, sharing, and dynamic URLs from database fields. Setup takes under five minutes with no backend or API key required.
- •WebView and external link approaches fail on real iOS/Android builds
- •New native PDF Viewer component uses platform PDF engines (PDFKit/PdfRenderer)
- •Setup is drag-and-drop with a single URL property, works on iOS, Android, and Web
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