How to display a PDF via Android web browser without downloading the file

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I have to display a pdf from URL. When i directly open the url in a webview then it asks me to download the pdf and then view based on the app that i want to use to view it. But I do not want to download the pdf, it must be just displayed directly.

Some answers that I went through on SO recommended to make use of docs.google.com

like here: How to display a PDF via Android web browser without "downloading" first

But this doesnt seem to be working anymore.

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'Doesnt seem to work' is not a very accurate description of your problem. – fweigl
I think you are getting something wrong. To display the content of a .pdf, it always has to be downloaded first. What you want to achieve is to only temporarily download it, and delete it again after the user exited the .pdf viewer. – PKlumpp
It just displays that preview not available. Even the older examples that I went through, at the time when google had introduced this, even those examples are now showing that preview not available. – frgr
@ZerO What i want is that the pdf must not be downloaded on the device. Earlier there have been solutions using google docs url, similar to the answer that I have shared in my question, but now that is not working. – frgr
The pdf is always loaded into a cache, and therefore downloaded. – PKlumpp

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use this inside your body tags

    <iframe src="http://example.com/yourpdf" width="100%" height="100%" style="border: none;">This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: <a href="http://example.com/yourpdf">Download PDF</a></iframe>