How does mobile Firefox still have no integrated PDF viewer but instead make you download and shell out to a dedicated PDF app (requiring you to find one you trust and waste storage space each time you view a PDF)?!
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GrapheneOS has a security-focused PDF viewer based on using pdf.js in the WebView. Can use it elsewhere:
* play.google.com/store/apps/det
* github.com/GrapheneOS/Pdf
Apps can directly open a PDF with it without saving it as a download but browsers may not commonly have support for that.
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It's currently very barebones but we plan on improving it quite a lot in the near future. Our focus was making a privacy/security focused Camera app but now that app is quite mature and we plan on shifting focus over to making the PDF viewer into a modern app with more features.
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Thanks! I just installed it. It works much better than the one that came with my Pixel 4.
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Main reason I don’t have installed on it is that is not knowing how to securely install the Play Store afterwards. (The other is that I don’t want to have to re-verify safety numbers with everyone.)
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You can use Signal's support for making an encrypted backup which you can then restore on GrapheneOS.
We'll have alpha release of our app repo client included within around a month. It's largely finished (github.com/GrapheneOS/App) but we need to finalize metadata and review it.
Thank you! That preserves safety numbers if I recall correctly. Will the Google Play Store be in the app repo?
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Yes, you can see it's mirrored at apps.grapheneos.org already. We currently don't bother mirroring anything else because once you have GSF, GMS and the Play Store you can obtain the rest through the Play Store. Can also update GMS / Play Store via the Play Store itself too.
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