Most of the applications provide users with the facility of bills to be downloaded from the mobile applications. This type of application gets the data from the APIS or data within the application and this data is used to generate the PDF files. PDF files within android are generated using canvas. In this article, we will take a look at How to generate a PDF file in android using Kotlin.
Note: If you are looking to generate PDF files in an Android application using Java. Check out the following article: How to generate PDF files in Android using Java
Step 1: Create a New Project in Android Studio
To create a new project in Android Studio please refer to How to Create/Start a New Project in Android Studio. Note that select Kotlin as the programming language.
Step 2: Working with the activity_main.xml file
Navigate to the app > res > layout > activity_main.xml and add the below code to that file. Below is the code for the activity_main.xml file. Comments are added inside the code to understand the code in more detail.