How to get last image captured with camera in android?

Question

My intention is not to take a picture and then save it to sd card , get the link and all. The image is already taked with the original camera app in the android.

All i need it how can i get that image path with respect to sd card like

emulated/0/sdcard/DCIM/100ANDRO/image.jpg

how do i get that format of the recently taken image.

you can get the file date and time when it captured and compare with the time and date with all file and just replace with greater time — Akarsh M, Nov 19 '13 at 07:44
you can query the MediaStore for the latest entry, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8337585/get-the-last-picture-taken-by-user — Gal Ben-Haim, Nov 19 '13 at 07:46
@GalBen-Haim i have seen that answer before posting this question, but was confused with answer. can you link some tutorial for this i think sqllite android tutorial. — yourkishore, Nov 19 '13 at 08:00

Thommy · Answer 1 · 2013-11-19T08:03:25.683

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I've accomplished it like this:

final String[] imageColumns = { MediaStore.Images.Media._ID, MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
final String imageOrderBy = MediaStore.Images.Media._ID + " DESC";
Cursor imageCursor = managedQuery(MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, imageColumns, null, null, imageOrderBy);
imageCursor.moveToFirst();
do {
    String fullPath = imageCursor.getString(imageCursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA));
    if (fullPath.contains("DCIM")) {
        //--last image from camera --
        return;
    }
}
while (imageCursor.moveToNext());

edited Nov 19 '13 at 08:03

answered Nov 19 '13 at 07:46

Thommy

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Thank you so much for reply, your code make sense, i love to give it a try and let you know the result. – yourkishore Nov 19 '13 at 07:57
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The Camera is not forced to save it's images on "DCIM" folder. This shouldn't be considered an general solution. It could work on some devices with some Camera applications, but to fail on others. – Ionut Negru Apr 28 '15 at 07:51

LotusUNSW · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-19T08:19:02.650

Use this to get path of file from URI:

Uri selectedImageUri = data.getData();
selectedImagePath = getRealPathFromURI(selectedImageUri);

    public String getRealPathFromURI(Context context, Uri contentUri) {
  Cursor cursor = null;
  try { 
    String[] proj = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
    cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(contentUri,  proj, null, null, null);
    int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
    cursor.moveToFirst();
    return cursor.getString(column_index);
  } finally {
    if (cursor != null) {
      cursor.close();
    }
  }
}

Cursor provides random read-write access to the result set returned by a database query.

getContentResolver () returns a ContentResolver instance for your application's package.

When you want to access data in a content provider, you use the ContentResolver object in your application's Context to communicate with the provider as a client. The ContentResolver object communicates with the provider object, an instance of a class that implements ContentProvider. The provider object receives data requests from clients, performs the requested action, and returns the results.

The Content Resolver includes the CRUD (create, read, update, delete) methods corresponding to the abstract methods (insert, delete, query, update) in the Content Provider class. The Content Resolver does not know the implementation of the Content Providers it is interacting with (nor does it need to know); each method is passed an URI that specifies the Content Provider to interact with.

MediaStore: The Media provider contains meta data for all available media on both internal and external storage devices. MediaStore.images contains meta data for all available images.

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