Forgive me for this stupid question. I just transitioned from iPhone to Pixel (GrapheneOS) and I’m curious why there isn’t a built in PDF viewer like on iPhone? It feels like you have to open things externally pretty often, but I figure there’s a reason for that. I haven’t used Android in many years and I recently developed an interest for the technical aspects of things, so again, do forgive this beginners question.

Cheers y’all!

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Easier to maintain and update when the reader is an app not part of the core OS.

    • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 months ago

      Yeah but system apps can be updated separately from the main OS on Android, so that doesn’t really apply