Currently, I’m just using the default ‘Drive PDF Viewer’ on my Android devices, would love to switch to something FOSS and non-google. Any good recommendations?
If it’s available on F-Droid, that would be preferable.
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I normally use muPDF
Firefox Mobile can open PDFs fine - https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/1c51814a-c761-4325-baa1-346e8ae2e7fb.png
MuPDF comes by default on CalyxOS, and is what I use.
Mupdf or fossify file manager has a pdf reader built in
I use MuPDF but there is also the GrapheneOS PDF viewer available on their GitHub
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer
You can install it using Obtainium or jus grab it from the GitHub page.
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I recommend the GrapheneOS Secure PDF Viewer. Unfortunately it’s not on F-Droid, but you can use Obtanium to pull the apk from their GitHub: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer
MuPDF is another option, it even is available on F-Droid.
I am using Librera Reader. Make sure to install the F-Droid version (Librera FD) without Google Play services.
It is primarily an ebook reader that supports a variety of formats, but it is also an excellent PDF viewer. Significantly more feature-rich than any other FOSS PDF viewer for Android that I have found.
KOreader is great, but use muPDF if you don’t want to learn
MuPDF mini or Sav PDF viewer
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer I’m using GrapehneOS and the integrated PDF viewer. Can’t say of it works flawlessly on other Android OSes, but you could give it a try!
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Yeah, brutal take but the graphene pdf reader is absolute trash. Takes forever to render pages, if it ever does, is the definition of bare-bones, and I can’t uninstall it. It’s like the camera - yeah it’s nice that it’s included, now let me rid my system of it and replace it with something actually well fleshed-out and rich with features.
MuPDF Viewer works fine for me. Not very feature rich tho.
Mupdf: lightweight, works great.