There are two directories you can get with path_provider: the documents directory and the temporary directory.
Since the temporary directory can be cleared by the system at any time, you should use the documents directory whenever you need to store data that you need to save, and use the temporary directory as a sort of cache or session storage for your app.
The two methods that retrieve the directories when you use the path_provider library are GetApplicationDocumentsDirectory and getTemporaryDirectory.
Both are asynchronous and return a Directory object. The following is an example of a Directory, with all its properties, as it looks on a Windows PC with an Android simulator attached to it:
As you can see, there is a path string property that contains the absolute path of the directory that was retrieved. That's why we used the following instructions:
setState(() {
documentsPath = docDir.path;
tempPath = tempDir.path;
});
That's how we updated the...