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jmfayard
05/03/2021, 1:00 PMIs there a Kotlin Multiplatform library to work with files?
a simple wrapper to
java.util.Filefopenfcloseacccesse
ephemient
05/03/2021, 1:03 PMhttps://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-io - largely not ready yet
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Javier
05/03/2021, 1:15 PMokio
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apahl
05/03/2021, 1:28 PMFor basic File reading and writing on K/N, I use the functions described in this post:
https://nequalsonelifestyle.com/2020/11/16/kotlin-native-file-io/
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Francis Mariano
05/03/2021, 2:34 PM@apahl Do you use the functions on iOS too? How do you pass the filePath parameter?
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apahl
05/03/2021, 2:43 PMNo, I use K/N only on Linux.
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napperley
06/13/2021, 10:39 PMMobile platforms like Android, and iOS don't allow direct file access for security reasons (revolves around sand boxing).
On Linux there is direct file access. This also applies to Flatpak ( https://flatpak.org/ ) although that is subject to sandbox restrictions and what file access permissions an app has in its manifest. Some Linux distributions like Linux Mint, and Fedora already support Flatpak, and provide the traditional app distribution method (deb, rpm etc).
If Linux is being targeted, and a GTK based application is being developed then the GIO ( https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ ) library might be an option (is an alternative the the POSIX File IO APIs).