Reputation: 275
currently i am trying to add custom exif tag/data to an image file that is in photo album.
I am able to modify the existing tags defined in ExifInterface
class
However, i want to store custom data, such as user id of my app user, but it seems there is no way i can create a custom exif attribute
the closest solution I found is here, but does not work,
Upvotes: 9
Views: 8412
Reputation: 719739
If you cannot use an existing exif attribute (such as "UserComment" or "ImageDescription"), then you are out of luck with using ExifInterface
.
Exif attributes are represented as binary tag numbers with the values encoded in binary data formats. ExifInterface
class abstracts this away from the programmer, and provides a setAttribute
method where the tag and the value are supplied as strings. Behind the scenes, it maps between the string form and the corresponding binary attribute representation.
The problem is that the ExifInterface
class only knows how to map a fixed set of attributes. Furthermore, the API doesn't provide a way to add the descriptors for new (e.g. custom) exif attributes to its mapping tables.
If you are really desperate, the alternatives are:
ExifInterface
's internal (private
) mapping tables. If you try this, you will need to deal with the fact that the ExifInterface
's implementation has changed radically over time. (In some older versions, the encoding and decoding of attributes is implemented in a native code library!)Upvotes: 5
Reputation: 325
Save the Exif data with the tag "ImageDescription"
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/ExifInterface.html
Code
try {
String imageDescription = "Your image description";
ExifInterface exif = new ExifInterface(file_name_of_jpeg);
exif.setAttribute("ImageDescription", imageDescription);
exif.saveAttributes();
} catch (IOException e) {
// handle the error
}
Upvotes: 3
Reputation: 1557
Try saving the Exif data with the tag:
"UserComment"
Code:
String mString = "Your message here";
ExifInterface exif = new ExifInterface(path_of_your_jpeg_file);
exif.setAttribute("UserComment", mString);
exif.saveAttributes();
You can put anything you want in there (as String) and simply parse the string. I wish we could create and name our own exif tags, but the reality is that we can't. So this is the best solution I came up with.
Upvotes: 8