You may recall recently that Google Play Books was updated to v3.1.17, which rather surprisingly granted us the ability to upload PDF and EPUB literature to Play Books. This was widely welcomed as this was one of the key missing abilities of Play Books over its competitors. Unfortunately, with its latest update, Google Play Books v3.1.23, Google has removed the ability to upload PDFs to the app by omitting one tiny bit of code that reads like this:
<data android:host=”*” android:mimeType=”*/*” android:pathPattern=”.*\.pdf” android:scheme=”file”/>
That was all it took to remove that feature, however the ability to upload EPUB files to Play Books appears to have remained. Â A quick check of the changelog information on Google Play will also show that PDF uploading has been removed from the description. It’s a bit of a shame as I know this will be one of the more sought after updates to Google Play Books, however a Google spokesperson told Android Police that the PDF uploading was a trial and that the functionality would likely return soon. That’s good news at least, so we’ll keep our eyes peeled for any updates. If you don’t have the latest version of Google Play Books yet, you can download it at the link below:
If, however, you can’t live without the ability to upload PDFs, you can also download v3.1.17 which first introduced the ability; link below:
What do you think about the removal of PDF uploading? Let us know in the comments.
Source: Android Police
