GPS tagged captured images in android

Question

I have captured a picture using the phone camera and stored it in variable "photo"

Bitmap photo = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data");

I have also obtained the latitude and longitude using the phone gps

lat = location.getLatitude();
lon = location.getLongitude();

How do I incorporate this gps data in the image only?

P.S. GPS tagged images can be captured manually by enabling the GPS tag option in the camera settings by the user. I want to make sure that the image captured is compulsorily GPS tagged.

this might be helpful for your problem: http://stackoverflow.com/a/12952370/508126 — kjurkovic, Sep 26 '13 at 09:09

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 26 '13 at 09:12

you can't set it to the Bitmap, the Bitmap is just a byte array with the image pixels. You have to apply those coordinates after you save it to a file that supports Metadata (for example PNG or JPG)

To do that you use the ExifInterface

Code is similar to that:

String filePath = Enviroment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/MyApp/photo.png";
OutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(new File(filePath)));
photo.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, out);
out.flush();
out.close();
ExifInterface exif = new ExifInterface(filePath);

// call this next setAttributes a few times to write all the GPS data to it.
exif.setAttribute(... );

// don't forget to save
exif.saveAttributes();

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 26 '13 at 09:09

0

Is this the what you are looking for?

answered Sep 26 '13 at 09:09

Seshu Vinay

13,560
9
60
109

GPS tagged captured images in android

2 Answers2