Is it not embarrassing that viewing PDF is not just baked Into the OS? As a Mac and iOS user it boggles the mind when I see colleagues on Android closing ad popups so they can view a PDF. Why are such things accepted?
There's a native reader in the Drive app. It's a nice integration actually, allowing for quick management of the file in Drive, keeping it from vanishing forever in my phone's "downloads" folder
Google Drive might just as well send my PDFs over the network (the name sort of implies it), something I don't want.
I'd been worried about that when I first tried it too. But it opens giant (130MB+) PDFs on my SD card just fine when in airplane mode and when I've had no cell signal. So despite the name, the Drive PDF Viewer app seems to run locally.
That's good to know, but still leaves me with the uneasy feeling of if/when this will change. For my taste, the cognitive load of all these security issues on mobile is a bit too high.
Opening a file triggering that file to be uploaded to the base directory of your google drive seems like such a weird behavior for them to ever add.
do you use android? I'm using the native pdf reader right now.