Writing EXIF metadata to images in Android

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vpk picture vpk · Jul 14, 2010 · Viewed 17.9k times · Source

I want to store some metadata in images. My camera application gives me a bitmap, which I store in the storage (MediaStore) device. In addition to this, I want to add a few tags to the picture in its metadata. I think EXIF is a good way of doing this. But I couldn't find good references on how to do this.

If there are some tools to achieve this task in Android programming, please let me know.

Thanks

Answer

vpk picture vpk · Jul 14, 2010

Ok, Somebody (offline) pointed me to a useful resource. The ExifInterface looks like what I was searching for. Android-er has a post demonstrating how to read EXIF metadata in Android and I think writing should not be very different.

I don't know, but can we EXIF to write arbitrary metadata, ie. other than those specified in the ExifInterface documentation (like latitude, longitude, flash etc). If not, what could be a preferred method of writing arbitrary metadata to image files?

Thanks

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