Extarct Metadata of a File (!) in android

Asked Jun 04 '15 at 08:22

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I know theres a class to get Audio and Video (MediaMetadataRetriever)

And for images I downloaded a library that mostly take the Exif information.

The problem is that Screenshots on mobiles doesn't have even a single Exif information.

Every file got metadata of its creation date for the very least.

I've been searching for a way to do it in android and only found the BasicFileAttributes class in java which apparently doesn't exists in android.

It feels so surreal that you cant get metadata of a file in android??

We must be missing something?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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asked Jun 04 '15 at 08:22

sharon gur

you are missing ExifInterface? – pskink Jun 04 '15 at 08:34
I dont need Exif, I need the purest level of metadata. apparently screenshots on mobile doesn't have any exif information. That's why I need the metadata of the file. EG its creation time. – sharon gur Jun 04 '15 at 08:50
get it from the filesystem info – pskink Jun 04 '15 at 08:54

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