New feature: Multiple file picker

[ChiefWiggum]

It would be great to have a method getFilePaths which allows the selection of multiple files, if the native picker allow this behaviour (not sure).
This method would then not return a single path, but a list/array of paths.

Does anyone know if the native file explorers support this behaviour?

[ChiefWiggum]

Looking at the UIDocumentPickerViewController it seems to support selecting multiple files when setting allowsMultipleSelection to true on iOS.

On Android it might be possible by using EXTRA_ALLOW_MULTIPLE.

But we would have to use another ImagePicker, since the current one, afaik, does not support the selection of multiple files. Maybe multi_image_picker would work?

[miguelpruivo]

Yes, there is a way on both platform that supports multiple file picking, however that wasn't the first purpose of this plugin. However is a nice to have that may be added in a future update.

[miguelpruivo]

Version 1.3.0 was deployed on dart pub and adds this, alongside with other requested features and bug fixes. See full changelog.

Make sure you clean and change your pubspec to the latest version: file_picker: ^1.3.0

Thank you for your feedback.

[miguelpruivo]

@ChiefWiggum as of now, with version 1.6.0 released just now you can start filtering multiple extensions at once. There are breaking changes, so have in mind that from now on you'll need to provide an List of file types instead of a single one with FileType.custom.

Example:

 List<File> files = await FilePicker.getMultiFile(
          type: FileType.custom,
          allowedExtensions: ['jpg', 'pdf', 'doc'],
        );

Thank you.

[ChiefWiggum]

Awesome, thank you. We'll give it a try in a few days.