Change the Document Title in the PDF Metadata on Android

By default, PSPDFKit parses documents and extracts the PDF title from the PDF metadata. If there is no metadata or the PDF name equals Untitled, then it’ll fall back to the file name and remove the .pdf file type.

PSPDFKit exposes various metadata keys:

public abstract class DocumentMetadata {
    @Nullable
    public abstract String getTitle();

    @Nullable
    public abstract String getAuthor();

    @Nullable
    public abstract String getSubject();

    @Nullable
    public abstract String getKeywords();

    @Nullable
    public abstract String getCreator();

    @Nullable
    public abstract String getProducer();

    @Nullable
    public abstract String getCreationDate();

    @Nullable
    public abstract String getModDate();
}

You can learn more about PDF metadata in the PDF Reference 1.7, Table 317.

Action Bar Changes

By default, PSPDFKit sets the title of the action bar to the document title. To avoid this behavior and customize the action bar title, you’ll have to extend PdfActivity and override the onSetActivityTitle() method:

override fun onSetActivityTitle(configuration: PdfActivityConfiguration, document: PdfDocument?) {
    // Set the required title in the action bar.
    supportActionBar?.title = "Custom title"

@Override
public void onSetActivityTitle(@NonNull PdfActivityConfiguration configuration, @Nullable PdfDocument document) {
    // Set the required title in the action bar.
    ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
    if (actionBar != null) {
        actionBar.setTitle("Custom title");
    }
}

Custom Document Title

If you want to set a custom document title but don’t want to change the document title inside the document metadata, then:

Create a DocumentDescriptor for your document
Set the required custom title via DocumentDescriptor#setTitle().
Open the document descriptor in PdfActivity.

// Create the document descriptor and set the custom title.
val documentDescriptor = DocumentDescriptor.fromUri(documentUri)
documentDescriptor.setTitle("Custom title")

// Start the activity with the document loaded from the document descriptor.
val intent = PdfActivityIntentBuilder.fromDocumentDescriptor(context, documentDescriptor)
    .configuration(configuration)
    .build()
context.startActivity(intent)

// Create the document descriptor and set the custom title.
DocumentDescriptor documentDescriptor = DocumentDescriptor.fromUri(documentUri);
documentDescriptor.setTitle("Custom title");

// Start the activity with the document loaded from the document descriptor.
Intent intent PdfActivityIntentBuilder.fromDocumentDescriptor(context, documentDescriptor)
    .configuration(configuration)
    .build();
context.startActivity(intent)

Alternatively, if you are not using tabs, you can use a simpler but less generic API, PdfActivityConfiguration.Builder#title(). The custom title set in PdfActivityConfiguration is displayed inside the action bar or the document title view (whichever is enabled). Note that this configuration is ignored when displaying multiple documents in a single activity (for example, when using tabs).