Surprisingly iText for Android (called iTextG) tutorials are often hard to find or the blog or tutorial date seems dated, however I will admit that Stackoverflow has lots of helpful content and helpful pointers regarding iText in Android. It was originally written for Java but has since been ported to. Itext is a popular library for creating and manipulating PDF documents. In this post I will begin with the basics of how to use the iTextg library to create a PDF document in Android which will make this blog post a basic introduction to iText in Android. As I navigate my way through Pdfland I will be sharing my Android iText PDF example in this and subsequent posts. Anyone approaching programmatic PDF with the mindset of the ease of GUI PDF is in for a pleasant surprise. I quickly realized that programmatic PDF involves dealing with a set of complex API. I waited until the last minute to integrate PDF hoping that there is a magical boolean I can set to true and voila, my deeply nested view will be converted to PDF. This blog post stems from my recent experience building my soon to be released Invoicing app.

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