reading android jpeg EXIF metadata from picture callback

Question

Background: I am writing a camera app for a messenger program. I cannot save the captured image to persistent disk at any time. The camera must support all orientations.

Answer 1

For anybody who might be interested, here is how to get the Orientation tag using the 2.3.1 interface from https://github.com/strangecargo/metadata-extractor

Metadata header;
try {
    ByteArrayInputStream bais= new ByteArrayInputStream(data);
    ExifReader reader = new ExifReader(bais);
    header = reader.extract();
    Directory dir = header.getDirectory(ExifDirectory.class);
    if (dir.containsTag(ExifDirectory.TAG_ORIENTATION)) {
        Log.v(TAG, "tag_orientation exists: " + dir.getInt(ExifDirectory.TAG_ORIENTATION));
    }
    else {
        Log.v(TAG, "tag_orietation doesn't exist");
    }


} catch (JpegProcessingException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (MetadataException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}