Currently, I am fetching a list of video files present in the directory using the following code

var videoList = _videoDir
          .listSync()
          .map((item) => item.path)
          .where((item) => item.endsWith(".mp4"))
          .toList(growable: true);

This generates a video list in random order. How can I fetch files in order of latest to oldest?

Update

I already tried to use the startsync() function at the end of the code but it cant be used on the type String when used after .toList()

CodePudding user response：

Use stat() or statSync() function of File class to sort the list in desired order.

  var videoList = videoDir.listSync()
    .where((e) => e.path.endsWith('.mp4'))
    .toList()
    ..sort((l, r) => l.statSync().modified.compareTo(r.statSync().modified));

  var videosPathList = videoList.map((e) => e.path).toList();

Note

List is growable by default.

List<FileSystemEntity> toList({bool growable = true})
dart:core

Creates a [List] containing the elements of this [Iterable].

The elements are in iteration order. The list is fixed-length if [growable] is false.

APIs:

FileStat
File class