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If you need to process download events elsewhere (i.e. outside of the _port.listen method) then you can send the update via a normal flutter stream to anywhere you want, ad...

Yes. Since iOS8 the NSDocumentDirectory changes for every app launch, so you should always rebuild that path and append the relative directory. For this reason, Apple recommends that you don't...

Thanks @rekire for working on this. I was also working on a refactor (more than a translation of Java and Obj-C) and thought about the sqlite database a lot -...

I wrote an alternative, simpler version of a background file downloader and published it as [background_downloader](https://pub.dev/packages/background_downloader) because I needed something that works reliably, without all the bells and whistles of...

@rekire the Android code uses the [WorkManager](https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/workmanager) which is the recommended way to run background tasks on Android. It is somewhat similar to URLSession on iOS in that you enqueue...

If you need to store additional information related to a task (and that information is not related to downloading the task) then I think you should create an additional database...

I published a simpler package optimized for large numbers of file downloads, called [background_downloader](https://pub.dev/packages/background_downloader). Have a look and please let me know what you think.

There is a fundamental issue with how flutter_downloader manages saveDir, in that it allows an absolute path, which is not allowed on iOS because iOS changes the base directory upon...

I published a simpler package called [background_downloader](https://pub.dev/packages/background_downloader) that may address your needs, please let me know what you think.

Hi, author of the [background_downloader](https://pub.dev/packages/background_downloader) here. I think my motivation to write an alternative is very similar to yours :) I'd love your feedback on the background_downloader package, as it...