Android Question No application can perform this action

[DonManfred]

I´m trying to open a PDF via a http-URL from our server.
Adobe Reader 11 is installed on the devices but if i want to open the URL with

Dim i As Intent 'Requires a reference to the Phone library
i.Initialize(i.ACTION_VIEW, "http://domain.tld/attachments/pdf/"&Value) ' Value is the name of the PDF 
i.SetType("application/pdf")
i.WrapAsIntentChooser("Choose PDF Viewer")
StartActivity(i)

i get the message "No application can perform this action". Open the URL in a browser on my PC opens that PDF with no problem.

What do i wrong here? Help needed

 

[DonManfred]

The code is used in a company-intern App.
So if i need a special app X to do that i can declare it as "must have installed app". That would be no problem.

 

[LucaMs]

You could try to download the pdf and read it from sd.

Or try this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4664791/what-intent-would-open-a-pdf-from-a-url

 

[notedop]

I would go for option 1. Buffer it locally and read it from there.

 

[DonManfred]

I wanted it to not need to download it. But if there is nothing i can do to get this to work then i´ll go the way to download it, copy the pdf to SDCard and then i´ll call an intent.

Anyway: thanx for your answers!

 

[eps]

Can you not try something along the lines of this?

http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/will-this-code-open-a-pdf.14753/#post-83908

But give it a URL as opposed to a file location, this should work (in theory).

 

[DonManfred]

In theory, yes. But not in real life ;-/ I´ve tried this but with this i always get the message "No application can perform this action" too.
So it seems that i have to download the pdf and copy it to SDcard...