If you happened to have stumble upon this blog post in its current form, I apologize. I’m currently working on adding download functionality to a WebView at work so user’s can download a PDF from my company’s app if the WebView url redirects to a PDF. To figure out how to do this, I’m currently creating an example React-Native app which I will post the source code to for this blog-post/tutorial. However, for this example app I am using my personal blog, and this blog post in particular, to include a link to a PDF.

Long story short… My Example app will feature a WebView pointed at this blog post URL. And this blog post will feature a LINK TO A PDF which the user can click on. The goal will be to intercept the PDF URL and download it if the WebView’s URL changes to a new URL featuring a PDF file instead of HTML.

CONCLUSION– CLICK ON THIS LINK TO VIEW THE PDF