AppDirs

AppDirs provides cross platform access to the special folders/directories like application data.

Benefits

• AppDirs is written in Kotlin/MultiPlatform, who let you to use it not only in Kotlin/JVM!
• Usage is pretty easy and do not change between platforms (see examples below)

Usage

The usage is very straightforward

// Find appdata folder
val appdata = AppDirs.getUserConfigDir("Program name", "Program version", "Program author (you!)")

More functions are available in the same manner (followed by an example in Kali Linux):

• getUserDataDir (/home/user/.local/share/author/program/1.0)
• getUserConfigDir (/home/user/.config/author/program/1.0)
• getUserCacheDir (/home/user/.cache/author/program/1.0)
• getUserLogDir (/home/user/.cache/author/program/1.0/logs)
• getSiteDataDir (/etc/xdg)
• getSiteConfigDir (/usr/share/author/program/1.0)