Kotlin Multiplatform AppDirs is a small library which provides a path to the platform dependent special folder/directory.

For example, here are the common paths of the folder/directory that is used to store application specific user data on each platform.

On Mac OS X : /Users/<Account>/Library/Application Support/<AppName>
On Windows XP : C:\Documents and Settings\<Account>\Application Data\Local Settings\<AppAuthor>\<AppName>
On Windows 7 : C:\Users\<Account>\AppData\<AppAuthor>\<AppName>
On Unix/Linux : /home/<account>/.local/share/<AppName>
On Android (internal) : /data/user/<uid>/<packageName>
On Android (external) : /storage/emulated/<storageId>/Android/data/<packageName>

With Kotlin Multiplatform AppDirs, you can get the path depending on the runtime platform with the following code.

val appDirs = AppDirs {
    appName = "<AppName>"
    appAuthor = "<AppAuthor>"
}
appDirs.getUserDataDir()

Kotlin Multiplatform AppDirs is a fork/kotlin multiplatform rewrite of the Java library AppDirs.

AppDirs is loosely based on a python module with the same name.
Please use the issue tracker for bug reports or suggestions.

kotlin {
    sourceSets {
        val commonMain by getting {
            dependencies {
                implementation("ca.gosyer:kotlin-multiplatform-appdirs:2.0.0")
            }
        }
    }
}

Currently, Kotlin Multiplatform AppDirs has the following methods.

• getUserDataDir
• getUserConfigDir
• getUserCacheDir
• getUserLogDir
• getSiteDataDir
• getSiteConfigDir
• getSharedDir

Here is a test program and the output on some platforms.

import ca.gosyer.appdirs.AppDirs

fun main() {
    val appDirs = AppDirs {
        appName = "myapp"
        appAuthor = "syer"
        extras("1.2.3")
    }
    println("User data dir: " + appDirs.getUserDataDir())
    println("User data dir (roaming): " + appDirs.getUserDataDir(roaming = true))
    println("User config dir: " + appDirs.getUserConfigDir())
    println("User config dir (roaming): " + appDirs.getUserConfigDir(roaming = true))
    println("User cache dir: " + appDirs.getUserCacheDir())
    println("User log dir: " + appDirs.getUserLogDir())
    println("Site data dir: " + appDirs.getSiteDataDir())
    println("Site data dir (multi path): " + appDirs.getSiteDataDir(multiPath = true))
    println("Site config dir: " + appDirs.getSiteConfigDir())
    println("Site config dir (multi path): " + appDirs.getSiteConfigDir(multiPath = true))
    println("Shared dir: " + appDirs.getSharedDir())
}

User data dir: /Users/ave/Library/Application Support/syer myapp/1.2.3
User data dir (roaming): /Users/ave/Library/Application Support/syer myapp/1.2.3
User config dir: /Users/ave/Library/Application Support/config/syer myapp/1.2.3
User config dir (roaming): /Users/ave/Library/Application Support/config/syer myapp/1.2.3
User cache dir: /Users/ave/Library/Caches/syer myapp/1.2.3
User log dir: /Users/ave/Library/Logs/syer myapp/1.2.3
Site data dir: /Library/Application Support/syer myapp/1.2.3
Site data dir (multi path): /Library/Application Support/syer myapp/1.2.3
Site config dir: /Library/Preferences/syer myapp/1.2.3
Site config dir (multi path): /Library/Preferences/syer myapp/1.2.3
Shared dir: /Users/Shared/Library/Application Support/syer myapp/1.2.3

• roaming and multiPath parameters have no effect on Mac OS X.

User data dir: C:\Users\ave\AppData\Local\syer\myapp\1.2.3
User data dir (roaming): C:\Users\ave\AppData\Roaming\syer\myapp\1.2.3
User config dir: C:\Users\ave\AppData\Local\syer\myapp\1.2.3
User config dir (roaming): C:\Users\ave\AppData\Roaming\syer\myapp\1.2.3
User cache dir: C:\Users\ave\AppData\Local\syer\myapp\Cache\1.2.3
User log dir: C:\Users\ave\AppData\Local\syer\myapp\Logs\1.2.3
Site data dir: C:\ProgramData\syer\myapp\1.2.3
Site data dir (multi path): C:\ProgramData\syer\myapp\1.2.3
Site config dir: C:\ProgramData\syer\myapp\1.2.3
Site config dir (multi path): C:\ProgramData\syer\myapp\1.2.3
Shared dir: C:\ProgramData\syer\myapp\1.2.3

• Internally calls SHGetFolderPath, either by Kotlin Native or via Java Native Access (JNA) on the JVM.
• Returns CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA or CSIDL_APPDATA for user directories.
• Returns CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA for site directories.
• multiPath parameter has no effect on Windows.

User data dir: /home/ave/.local/share/myapp/1.2.3
User data dir (roaming): /home/ave/.local/share/myapp/1.2.3
User config dir: /home/ave/.config/myapp/1.2.3
User config dir (roaming): /home/ave/.config/myapp/1.2.3
User cache dir: /home/ave/.cache/myapp/1.2.3
User log dir: /home/ave/.local/state/myapp/logs/1.2.3
Site data dir: /usr/local/share/myapp/1.2.3
Site data dir (multi path): /usr/local/share/myapp/1.2.3:/usr/share/myapp/1.2.3
Site config dir: /etc/xdg/myapp/1.2.3
Site config dir (multi path): /etc/xdg/myapp/1.2.3
Shared dir: /srv/myapp/1.2.3

• AppDirs respects XDG Base Directory Specification if variables are defined.
• Returns XDG_DATA_HOME for user data directory.
• Returns XDG_CONFIG_HOME for user config directory.
• Returns XDG_CACHE_HOME for user cache directory.
• Returns XDG_DATA_DIRS for site data directory.
• Returns XDG_CONFIG_DIRS for site config directory.
• Returns XDG_STATE_HOME for logs directory.
• appAuthor parameter is not used on Unix/Linux.
• roaming parameter has no effect on Unix/Linux.

User data dir: /data/user/0/ca.gosyer.appdirsm/app_data/1.2.3
User data dir (roaming): /data/user/0/ca.gosyer.appdirsm/app_data/1.2.3
User config dir: /data/user/0/ca.gosyer.appdirsm/app_config/1.2.3
User config dir (roaming): /data/user/0/ca.gosyer.appdirsm/app_config/1.2.3
User cache dir: /data/user/0/ca.gosyer.appdirsm/cache/1.2.3
User log dir: /data/user/0/ca.gosyer.appdirsm/app_logs/1.2.3
Site data dir: /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/ca.gosyer.appdirsm/files/data/1.2.3
Site data dir (multi path): /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/ca.gosyer.appdirsm/files/data/1.2.3
Site config dir: /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/ca.gosyer.appdirsm/files/config/1.2.3
Site config dir (multi path): /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/ca.gosyer.appdirsm/files/config/1.2.3
Shared dir: /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/ca.gosyer.appdirsm/files/shared/1.2.3

• AppDirs respects Scoped storage and only accesses the application private directory.

Please create an issue on the tracker.

Kotlin Multiplatform AppDirs is released under Apache Software License 2.0, the same license of AppDirs.