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This will open the share dialog for the PDF file and allow the user to take action.

I discovered that you cannot open the file directly because it is sandboxed on IOS, see information on the cordova-plugin-file repo regarding directoy structure and R/W access

Needs the following plugins.

• cordova-plugin-file
• cordova-plugin-file-opener2

snippet.js

// assuming the path to the file is in the www directory...
window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL(cordova.file.applicationDirectory + "www/midterm.pdf", function(entry) {
  console.log(entry.toURL());
  cordova.plugins.fileOpener2.open(
    entry.toURL(), // convert to nice URL for opening
    'application/pdf', {
      error: function(e) {
        console.log('Error status: ' + e.status + ' - Error message: ' + e.message);
      },
      success: function() {
        console.log('file opened successfully');
      }
    })
});