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al-ghaly
al-ghaly

Reputation: 33

Store files from flutter application to external storage

Is it always safe to use the path "/storage/emulated/0/{MY APP NAME}" to store the files ?

I Want to store files in the external storage of the android device and I want to store it in a folder named after the app name this folder needs to be located in the external storage.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8282

Answers (3)

W.Perrin
W.Perrin

Reputation: 4725

Check this thread.

The directory an app can access on sdcard looks like /storage/1718-0217/Android/data/com.example.app_name/files. You can get this with the code below.

(await getExternalStorageDirectories())?[1].path;

One app should only access some restricted directories on sdcard. Or you should use Permission.manageExternalStorage.request(), it is strongly restricted and always return false.

Fortunately, per-app directories can also be scanned by other services such like media.

Upvotes: 0

Arbiter Chil
Arbiter Chil

Reputation: 1285

try the same package of ext_storage named android_external_storage its the same concept putting the downloaded data for example to the download folder.

Upvotes: 0

tmaihoff
tmaihoff

Reputation: 3570

Have you tried the package path_provider https://pub.dev/packages/path_provider/install?

It comes with the methods getExternalStorageDirectory() and getApplicationDocumentsDirectory() which might be what you are looking for. As far as I know different os types are automatically considered as well.

Upvotes: 1

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