how to sort list by date - flutter/dart

Question

I'm using storage access framework to get media files from specific directory. I'm making the use of saf.cache() method which returns the list of string (basically media path)

but I need to sort this list of string by creation time/date. How can I do that?

https://pub.dev/packages/saf

  Future<List<String>> fetchImages() async {

      Saf saf = Saf('specific_directory');
      List<String>? cacheList = await saf.cache();
      List<String> imageList = cacheList!.where((element) => element.endsWith('.jpg')).toList(); // it returns In random order
      return imageList;
  }

Answer 1

Use.sort property to do this.

try:

myList.sort((sl1, sl2) {
      String list1 = sl1['column1'] ?? '0';
      String list2 = sl2['column2'] ?? '0';
      return sl1.compareTo(sl2);
    });

Answer 2

you can use a higher order method called sort

and user compareTo to compare between dates ex:

   var items = [
    'Default',
    'Difficulty',
    'Time',
    'Di',
  ];
items.sort((a,b)=>a.length.compareTo(b.length));
print(items);
//[Di, Time, Default, Difficulty]