title: Produce thumbnail from pdf on Android
body: <p>I am managing a bunch of PDF files in an android application maintaining a list of records in a SQLite database as well as storing the pdf files on the external storage. </p>
  
  <p>Now I would like to present a thumbnail of the first page of the pdf in my list view as part of each cell representing a pdf.</p>
  
  <p>I am aware of libraries like iText, fop..  on the JavaSE side that can render a PDF but I would rather not delve into embedding a large library like that. On a similar approach I would also rather not embed a native PDF viewer like droidreader, apv or vudroid.</p>
  
  <p>Otherwise I could of course also get it rendered on a server via some webservice but that is a lot of headache as well.</p>
  
  <p>I am already using intents to get the pdf's displayed for the user so I was thinking it would be great if I could get a thumbnail via a intent call as a result somehow. However I found nothing on the web (e.g. on openintents) that indicates something like that exists ..</p>
  
  <p>So I am a bit at a loss on what to do? What do you think is the best approach to get these thumbnails into my app? Are there any public intents available? Or did I just totally miss something and the SDK provides features for that already (it should imho but currently does not)?</p>