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Convert Android view to PDF of A4 size

I have an android resume building application. I want to generate a PDF of size A4 from my view. Here's how my layout looks like - At the top I have a Top App Bar, and the whole view in encapsulated in drawer. The main part which contains user's details is encapsulated in nestedScrollView, which contains multiple LinearLayout and TextView. In this screenshot below, I have populated it with mock data, but in actuality, I am fetching data from the Firebase Realtime Database and displaying it on the UI.
I tried to understand iTextPdf solution and multiple question of similar type that has been asked here, but I couldn't find something solid. Please help me out, it would be of great help.
Also, please don't close this question by giving a reason that the question doesn't contain any code. It doesn't because I don't have any. I am trying to solve this problem from scratch. I have tried to describe my problem as much as I could.

try this:
create a WebView and copy the text of your edittext in it:
webview.loadData(youredittext.gettext().tostring, "text/html", "UTF-8");
and convert webview to pdf by below function:
private void createWebPrintJob(WebView webView) {
PrintManager printManager = (PrintManager) this
.getSystemService(Context.PRINT_SERVICE);
PrintDocumentAdapter printAdapter =
webView.createPrintDocumentAdapter();
String jobName = getString(R.string.app_name) + " Print Test";
if (printManager != null) {
printManager.print(jobName, printAdapter,
new PrintAttributes.Builder().build());
}
}
after that user can select page size for example A4

There are a lot of libraries that convert layouts to PDF, but let's opt for popular one so we could find answers if we're stuck.
The libraries I listed works like so : They take screenshot of your layout as bitmap image and convert it to pdf.
- 1st solution: iTextPDF https://github.com/itext/itext7 (New Version).
check this detailed tutorial which treates also the case of taking screenshot of a scrollview https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/989236/How-to-Convert-Android-View-to-PDF-2
and this stackoverflow answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/29731275/12802591
- 2nd solution: PdfMyXML library https://github.com/HendrixString/Android-PdfMyXml just follow the steps in the documentation.
They may be other solutions, but these are the popular ones.
Let Me know if it works for you and also if you're stuck. Thank you!

Arabic data fetched from Microsoft SQL is not showing properly

I developed a web service using java which request from the database Arabic data.
I'm using this web service in android using volley.
The problem is when i get the data and set it in text field it's show some weird symbols (اÙÙÙسÙ).
The collation in database is : Arabic_CI_AS
I tried many solutions but nothing works!
I would really appreciate your help

This might be related to text direction attribute for the TextView, you have to set it to "anyRtl". Not sure which version that you are working on but this is available since 17+.
This above attribute can be set in one of the following ways:
From XML: Add this line: android:textDirection="anyRtl" to your
TextView tag.
From code:
textview.setTextDirection(View.TEXT_DIRECTION_ANY_RTL);
Haven't tried it though, hope this helps.
Few Links:
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/25359/how-to-make-an-android-device-to-display-complex-rendering-of-indic-characters
Display Arabic text in android textview
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/TextDirectionHeuristics

How to clear cache in picasso?

I am developing an android app.In that app, the server stores the images that is to be displayed in imageView of listview. I use picasso to get image from the server and display in imageview. Though I had uploaded new images in server, only old images are being displayed again. I suspect this is due to cache in picasso.
I used 3 methods to prevent cache:
Picasso.with(getActivity()).load(data.get(pos).getFeed_thumb_image()).skipMemoryCache().into(image);
Picasso.with(getActivity()).load(data.get(pos).getFeed_thumb_image()).memoryPolicy(MemoryPolicy.NO_CACHE).into(image);
Picasso.with(context).invalidate(imagePath);
But in no result. How can I clear cache in picasso for particular url?

This is going to be implemented in the future, but see the post of Jake Wharton:
JakeWharton commented on 11 Dec 2014 Current best candidate:
picasso.load('http://example.com/')
.cachePolicy(NO_CACHE, NO_STORE)
.networkPolicy(NO_CACHE, NO_STORE, OFFLINE)
.into(imageView);
enum MemoryPolicy {
NO_CACHE, NO_STORE
}
enum NetworkPolicy {
NO_CACHE, NO_STORE, OFFLINE
}
This will be what's implemented unless anyone has other thoughts.

Try load url with variable like time now:
Calendar urlvar = Calendar.getInstance();
int seconds = urlvar.get(Calendar.SECOND);
Then load your url by adding to string: ?urlvar so the final loaded url will be for example example.com/m.png?date it will be cashed but next load the date is changed so the url will change so will not load from cash. Hope ot work

refresh embedded image vaadin

I have following code to show a picture in an embedded picture in Vaadin
final Embedded currentPicture = new Embedded("Profile picture of " + strusername);
File uploadedPicture = new File(alreadyUploaded);
currentPicture.setSource(new FileResource(uploadedPicture));
This is just a small part of a larger project so this is just a snippet.
The code works fine but gives problem with caching. I know that I can counter the caching by adding a random factor to the URL of the image, but I can't seem to get it working with an embedded picture.
For instance: the value of alreadyuploaded is "/path/to/pic/user.jpg" and Vaadin shows the image as following: http://my.project/picture/APP/global/0/legacy/0/user.jpg when I check the HTML code.
When I refresh I see another picture (still not the right one) and the link is as following:
http://my.project/picture/APP/global/7/legacy/7/user.jpg
Another refresh results in:
http://my.project/picture/APP/global/9/legacy/9/user.jpg
Is there any way I can add a random element to an embedded picture? The example of the Book of Vaadin doesn't work since I don't have streamresource because I used this upload picture example on the Book of Vaadin

Playing SCORM on Android devices

I've got few questions about Android and SCORM. In both areas I'm pretty new and I only spent one evening digging the web in search of some answers.
Topics I found were about synchronizing SCORM package with LMS but I do not need that. I'm just wondering how to PLAY (and just play, no need for any syncing or tracking) SCORM package on android device (Lenovo tablet with Android 4+ OS). If I try to make my own application which allows to browse local SCORM packages, will I be able to launch SCORM by using WebView component?
I found this tutorial:
http://support.scorm.com/entries/21826060-RSOfflinePlayer-Developer-Tutorial
which has section:
Playing Content and Syncing Results
where I found some interesting source code about configuring this WebView component in order to play SCORM content, but I'm not really sure if I need RSOfflinePlayer.jar for this.
I've also heard, that if device supports Flash, I will be able to launch SCORMs with Browser - is it true?
Maybe you know some application which can do that? Or library which could help?
Is there anyone with experience in:
1) Java SCORM API:
would paste URL, but I need more reputation
2) Celine
https://code.google.com/p/celine-scorm/
Any help will be appreacieted, not only by me but also by children with different kinds of diseases (we are just students trying to help them).

Javier is almost right. I will nonetheless try to explain this again. Maybe you will gather more information from this.
Every SCO is basically a zipped webpage. You have to unzip it and look for imsmanifest.xml, find the initial file in there (index.html, player.html, something like this). It will NOT be located under resources. You first have to look at Organizations > Organization > Item > Identifierref, which will give you an ID. Then you have to look at Resources > Resource with the above ID > href value. This is the file you're looking for.
Example (index.html is the file you need):
<organizations default="someorg">
<organization identifier="someorg">
<title>Some Title</title>
<item identifier="CourseItem01" identifierref="SCO_Resource_01" isvisible="true">
<title>SCO Title Here</title>
</item>
</organization>
</organizations>
...
...
<resources>
<resource identifier="SCO_Resource_01" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="sco" href="index.html">
<file href="index.html"/>
<file href="SCORM_API_wrapper.js"/>
...
Once you found it, just open it in WebView and it'll try to connect to SCORM API in the parent window. You'll have to provide some dummy functions to fool it into thinking that it did connect to LMS and carry on as usual. Otherwise it will either fail or throw alerts at you.

I don't have any Android experience, but I have some experience working with SCORM.
To play a SCORM object, you need to open the right file inside the right environment, the right file is stated in the imsmanifest.xml file, that will be always in the top level of the zip package, you have to look for something like this:
<resources>
<resource identifier="546468" type="webcontent" href="index.htm" adlcp:scormtype="sco">
<file href="index.htm" />
</resource>
</resources>
This means that you have to open index.htm in the top level, in general you have to look for the first resource with adlcp:scormtype="sco" (if you need more details, read the SCORM spec).
When this page loads, it will look for the API object, it must be in the parent window, or parent frame, you will need a dummy SCORM API, something like:
function ScormAPIClass()
{
this.GetLastError = function (){return 0};
this.GetErrorString = function (param){return ""};
this.GetDiagnostic = function (param){return ""};
this.SetValue = function (element, value){
//you need something else here
return true};
this.GetValue = this.SetValue = function (element){
//you need something else here
return true};
this.Initialize = function (param){return true};;
this.Terminate = function (param){return true};
this.Commit = function (param){return true};;
this.version = "1.0";
}
window.API_1484_11 = new ScormAPIClass();
The SCORM objects will assume that you API works, so, if the set and get functions are not real this can generates errores depending on the object logic.
Also, I did not tested the code, is only to give you an idea of what you need.
I hope this help you.

First you have to understand structure of Scorm.
You can see Scorm package is a zip file containing several folders right and a manifest file.
First you have to unzip that zip package of Scorm and then you have to parse that imsmanifest.xml file and maintain two lists one containing titles and other addresses of html files corresponding to that title.
I have used sax2r2 parser to parse that manifest file and got that two array lists one containing title and other addresses of html files.
Later you just have to fill up you IOS list with titles array, and when user click on any title of that list get the position of list and retrieve the address of html files corresponding to that title from addresses array list.
finally you can open html file in webview of your IOS, make sure have enabled parameters required for open scorm html5 file.
In android I have enabled and set these values this is java code but it may help you.
WebViewClient webViewClient = new WebViewClient();
webView.setWebViewClient(webViewClient);
webView.clearCache(true);
webView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
webView.setInitialScale(1);
webView.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
webView.clearHistory();
webView.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true);
webView.getSettings().setDomStorageEnabled(true);
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.getSettings().setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON);
webView.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
webView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
webView.getSettings().setPluginState(PluginState.ON);
webView.loadUrl("file://" + open_scorm.scorm_path
+ open_scorm.scorm_name + "/" + open_scorm.href.get(0));
webView is used to open html/html5 files in android and i have enabled above settings in android, these settings are by default in android, may be in ios you just have to load that html file and dnt have to enable all these values.
In above you can see I am retrieving href.get(0) which is first html5 file of scorm.
In simple words you just have to unzip scorm , parse imsmanifest.xml file and get data of it and use it to open/parse scorm.