Android: PDF viewers are a bit like parachutes: if you discover you don't have one right when you need it, you're immediately having a bad day. To help, Google has released a standalone PDF reader.

The native PDF viewer of the Chrome browser is good enough to open a PDF file with a single page view mode, access PDF bookmarks, zoom in and out PDF, take PDF print, etc. But this PDF viewer also ...

When Chrome 87 was released last week, it came with numerous performance improvements but no new features. Hidden behind a flag, though, is a much-anticipated PDF reader that users can enable right ...

Files by Google is preparing some upgrades to its internal PDF viewer. Right now, the app’s PDF support is bare-bones, with external apps like Drive doing the heavy lifting. These upgrades will likely ...

Chrome for Android's built-in PDF reader is ready to go live on Android 12+ devices. You must enable the flags to use the PDF reader though. Chrome's PDF reader ...

Google has updated its Google Drive for Android with two new features and a slew of improvements. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play. The ...

The updated viewer doesn't look too different than the old one at first glance, but there are a few key differences. There's now a side panel that displays a list of pages, so you can see a preview of ...

Gmail gets a handy update that lets you open PDFs using the Google Docs viewer. Gone is the option to open them up in HTML, but this is a good thing. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers ...