diff --git a/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/CHANGELOG.md
index 816457564de8..2d53566fb0d3 100644
--- a/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-## NEXT
+## 2.0.28
 
 * Updates minimum supported SDK version to Flutter 3.3/Dart 2.18.
+* Adds support for getDownloadsDirectory in Android
 
 ## 2.0.27
 
diff --git a/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/lib/path_provider_android.dart b/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/lib/path_provider_android.dart
index f5c74f540253..f130ba623107 100644
--- a/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/lib/path_provider_android.dart
+++ b/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/lib/path_provider_android.dart
@@ -81,7 +81,9 @@ class PathProviderAndroid extends PathProviderPlatform {
   }
 
   @override
-  Future<String?> getDownloadsPath() {
-    throw UnsupportedError('getDownloadsPath is not supported on Android');
+  Future<String?> getDownloadsPath() async {
+    final List<String>? paths =
+        await getExternalStoragePaths(type: StorageDirectory.downloads);
+    return paths?.first;
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/pubspec.yaml b/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/pubspec.yaml
index 2bd685bb6406..999e8700b1f1 100644
--- a/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/pubspec.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: path_provider_android
 description: Android implementation of the path_provider plugin.
 repository: https://github.com/flutter/packages/tree/main/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android
 issue_tracker: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22p%3A+path_provider%22
-version: 2.0.27
+version: 2.0.28
 
 environment:
   sdk: ">=2.18.0 <4.0.0"
diff --git a/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/test/path_provider_android_test.dart b/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/test/path_provider_android_test.dart
index e3011474a2a3..358702678657 100644
--- a/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/test/path_provider_android_test.dart
+++ b/packages/path_provider/path_provider_android/test/path_provider_android_test.dart
@@ -89,13 +89,9 @@ void main() {
       });
     } // end of for-loop
 
-    test('getDownloadsPath fails', () async {
-      try {
-        await pathProvider.getDownloadsPath();
-        fail('should throw UnsupportedError');
-      } catch (e) {
-        expect(e, isUnsupportedError);
-      }
+    test('getDownloadsPath succeeds', () async {
+      final String? path = await pathProvider.getDownloadsPath();
+      expect(path, kExternalStoragePaths);
     });
   });
 }