android_file_picker

The Android implementation of file_picker.

Usage

This package is endorsed, which means you can simply use file_picker as normal, and the Android implementation will be automatically included.

Android setup

If your app overrides onActivityResult in a custom MainActivity, make sure it calls super.onActivityResult(...) for activities it doesn't handle itself. Otherwise the plugin's own onActivityResult (in FilePickerDelegate) never runs, and picking a file fails silently.

initialDirectory is not supported for picking

initialDirectory currently has no effect on pickFile(), pickFiles(), pickFileAndDirectoryPaths(), or getDirectoryPath() on Android. The native side launches ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT, ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE, and ACTION_GET_CONTENT intents, none of which are given a starting location. It only works for saveFile() today.

Supporting it for picking would need turning a plain file path into a content:// document tree URI for DocumentsContract.EXTRA_INITIAL_URI, which Android's Storage Access Framework does not map to directly, so this is tracked as a future improvement rather than a quick fix.