file.setLastModified does not work in Android

Question

I am trying to achieve lastAccessedTime of a File in Android, for which I tried the following 2 methods:

1. Using lstat as described of its use here.

But Android does not use lastAccessedTime, during which either lastModified/fileCreation time is returned.

2. Using file.setLastModified, but Android is returning false on performing setLastModified over a file.

   long now = new Date().getTime()
   boolean success = file.setLastModified(now)
   

Few threads in stackoverflow described this bug with Android, but all of them are quite old. Did Android resolve this known issue in later versions ? or is there and other solution for fetching lastAccessedTime of a file ?

3. The ugly fix as described here.

   RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(file, "rw");
   long length = raf.length();
   raf.setLength(length + 1);
   raf.setLength(length);
   raf.close();
   

I'm afraid if this would corrupt any of the files.

Would be grateful for any help.