Looking to create a VERY simple app, need help

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    Looking to create a VERY simple app, need help

    First off, I work in the IT department at a business and am in charge of the phones. We are currently deploying Droid X2s and to reduce the amount of calls that I receive I have created a help/troubleshooting document that I want to send out to people. To get them to use it, I want to make it available for them directly on their phones. I also want them to be able to access it without them having a data connection (just incase that is the problem).

    I want to be able to create icon on the home screen on the phone that they can just click on to access this document. I don't know if there is an easy way to just download a PDF or word document on the phone and then I can create an icon for it on their home screen. Or if I would need to create an app that I could just download on the phone before I sent it out to the users

    Just wanted to see what would be the easiest way to go about this? Any suggestions is much appreciated!! Thanks!!
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    I have an app with a simular feature https://github.com/n00bware/android_apps_propmodder/blob/master/src/com/n00bware/propmodder/ShowBuildProp.java
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    ou can just use this but change https://github.com/n00bware/android_apps_propmodder/blob/master/src/com/n00bware/propmodder/ShowBuildProp.java#L52
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    o point to your text doc

    if you want to use a pdf you will have to install a pdf viewer on every device but the webview this uses is in the frameworks generic to Android
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    why create an app for this ? why not ask the users to install a pdf viewer and then put the pdf in the home screen of their phones ?
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    Yep... What everyone else said. Just put the pdf on and put it on the home screen!

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