Just to save someone the misery I had to go through. What is required
is a media scan of the SDCARD to make these properties available
through the content provider and android does this when the media is
mounted:
sendBroadcast(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_MOUNTED,
Uri.parse("file://" + Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory())));
On Aug 8, 6:48 pm, Tabman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm having some trouble accessing attributes like DURATION and
> DATE_MODIFIED of video and image. My app access these attributes for
> both type of data but if I take a picture or shoot a video the related
> attributes are not immediately available through content provider e.g.
> for DURATION for that specific video it returns 0.
>
> If I restart the phone the attribute for the newly shoot video or
> picture taken becomes available.
>
> The other way to make the attributes available is to plug in and out
> your phone to a computer through usb cable. Once that is done the
> attributes are available.
>
> Any comments on why this is happening ?
>
> Is this a bug ? I need a resolution for this.
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