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Vitor Ferreira
Vitor Ferreira

Reputation: 1095

How to check if a content uri is an image or a video?

In my app I created a file picker that returns a list of uris like the ones below:

[content://media/external/file/300725, content://media/external/file/299993, content://media/external/file/299986]

Is there any way to know if each of these files is an image or a video?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2195

Answers (1)

codearn19
codearn19

Reputation: 181

One way to do so is following this SO post

In short to find an image:

public static boolean isImageFile(String path) {
String mimeType = URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromName(path);
return mimeType != null && mimeType.startsWith("image"); }

To find a video:

public static boolean isVideoFile(String path) {
String mimeType = URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromName(path);
return mimeType != null && mimeType.startsWith("video");}

Upvotes: 3

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