Actually, the sqflite author discourages to use the getDatabasesPath and recommends to use path_provider. What's the issue with path_provider that you mention? Do you maybe have a link to a github issue?

https://github.com/tekartik/sqflite/blob/master/sqflite_common_ffi/README.md?plain=1#L163C20-L163C33

Actually, the sqflite author discourages to use the getDatabasesPath and recommends to use path_provider. What's the issue with path_provider that you mention? Do you maybe have a link to a github issue?

https://github.com/tekartik/sqflite/blob/master/sqflite_common_ffi/README.md?plain=1#L163C20-L163C33

You're right, but the path_provider package is currently facing some issues and isn't working correctly with Flutter 3.29. Therefore, we can use the getDatabasesPath function for now.

Actually, the sqflite author discourages to use the getDatabasesPath and recommends to use path_provider. What's the issue with path_provider that you mention? Do you maybe have a link to a github issue?

https://github.com/tekartik/sqflite/blob/master/sqflite_common_ffi/README.md?plain=1#L163C20-L163C33

We can't not wait for path_provider author to update his package. This package is used by many packages (cached_network_image for example)

But I still don't get what the issue is. If I look at the open issues there is no recent issue about android: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22p%3A+path_provider%22

The cached_network_image example has some outdated android project files, but if I delete them and recreate them it runs fine on Android with Flutter 3.29.0.

Can you point me to a specific issue that you have with path_provider? I wonder if you should just update your gradle files. It's also good to use java 17 instead of 21 on Android Studio.

But I still don't get what the issue is. If I look at the open issues there is no recent issue about android: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22p%3A+path_provider%22

The cached_network_image example has some outdated android project files, but if I delete them and recreate them it runs fine on Android with Flutter 3.29.0.

Can you point me to a specific issue that you have with path_provider? I wonder if you should just update your gradle files. It's also good to use java 17 instead of 21 on Android Studio.

I can't point you to the specific issue because the issue is not on github. I was notified by my app users that the images are not showing up. After days of looking for the cause of that issue, I found out that, the issue related to path_provider. In debug mode, everything works fine but not in release mode. The app cannot get the directories (documents, downloads, etc...)
After removing everything related to path_provider and rewrite the code, my app works fine.