How to ZIP files? 🤔

[sonumohammad333 (Sonu Mohammad)]

Can we ZIP/compress files
And also convert ZIP to normal files?
Is there any extension to do this?

[vknow360 (Sunny Gupta)]

You can use file component for that.

[Conor]

You can use the File component which has Zip and Unzip methods.

https://docs.kodular.io/components/storage/file/

[veena_kumari]

You can also use ZIP.exe for that on pc

[vknow360 (Sunny Gupta)]

I was not aware that kodular made apps can run on PC

[veena_kumari]

That’s not funny. I have made my app Health Care app on pc only and published it to kodular store through my pc

[vknow360 (Sunny Gupta)]

Don’t take that seriously
I was just saying that if he has to use PC apps then he has a lot of choices available but he want to zip/unzip files in kodular.So suggesting PC apps does not make any sense (at least in my opinion)

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

@Conor

You can use the File component which has Zip and Unzip methods

Yes, but please change these inconsistencies (absolute / relative paths):

See e.g. also here:

File path for unzip file component

It’s really hard to get it working, because there are several issues with the File component: Sometimes the full path and sometimes the relative is used (see blocks below) WRITE permission is not queried automatically (only READ), so you have to ask manually for WRITE permission. Permission granted is not triggered when the app starts for the first time, so you have to reload the screen. Moreover: the File component can not access the assets with the APK (works only with companion). To chec…

[vknow360 (Sunny Gupta)]

Sometimes I think I am the only one whose extensions has most of the bugs but probably I am wrong