I know there is no function like on the desktop to view PDFs directly in browser since years. But why? Is it because of the system itself or because of the browser engine? This situation belongs to android as well as also iPhone.
Note: On the iPhone you can view PDFs in browser via safari so I dont know if we can adapot this somehow. But sure it could be also that Apple locked down this function.
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