opening downloaded file in ios app won't show back button to the original view

Question

I have built a Xamarin Forms web wrapper, and upon downloading files in the web view it opens the downloaded document up in the app, however no back or close button is present in order to go back to the web view in the app,

I have also tried passing the url of the file to a new navigation page by PushAsync method so that i can utilize the back button on that page, however it then will not open the document up in this view.

Answer 1

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Try to use Xamarin.Essentials: Launcher , but note : this plugin is to request other apps to open and view the file .

If you want to preview the file inside your app , create dependency service and use UIDocumentInteractionController or QLPreviewController ,refer to sample here : https://github.com/jimmgarrido/document-interaction-sample .

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