Android Question Android emulator to produce PDF file

[JDS]

Right now we've got an app that can produce a pdf-file. It's generated with some parameters.

However a customer would like to get the same pdf returned but not installing this app on all the phones.

We where thinking of using some kind of emulator which can be called on our server and then that one returns the PDF. This prevents us from building an entire new (windows based) programm.

Any thoughts?

 

[aeric]

You mean you currently have an Android app that can generate PDF file but then you want to generate the PDF file using an emulator running on Windows OS which behave like a server? Once the PDF file has been generated inside the emulator, how do you download the file to other location?

 

[JDS]

We could send the PDF to a webservice where other applications can download the PDF.

The current app has a lot of custom work to generate the desired PDF. We prefer not to build a new windows based programm which we should keep in sync with mutations.

 

[emexes]

using some kind of emulator ... prevents us from building an entire new (windows based) program.

You mean an Android emulator, operated remotely either via your internal network or over the internet?

www.appetize.io might do the job, although it's on their server, not yours.

 

[makis_best]

I don't understand the question also.
Maybe one example will be more proper to understand.