How to save GPS coordinates in exif data on Android?

Question

I am writing GPS coordinates to my JPEG image, and the coordinates are correct (as demonstrated by my logcat output) but it appears that it\'s being corrupted somehow. Readi

Answer 1

Other answers delivered nice background info and even an example. This is not a direct answer to the question but I would like to add an even simpler example without the need to do any math. The Location class delivers a nice convert function:

public String getLonGeoCoordinates(Location location) {

    if (location == null) return "0/1,0/1,0/1000";
    // You can adapt this to latitude very easily by passing location.getLatitude()
    String[] degMinSec = Location.convert(location.getLongitude(), Location.FORMAT_SECONDS).split(":");
    return degMinSec[0] + "/1," + degMinSec[1] + "/1," + degMinSec[2] + "/1000";
}

I stored the return value in my image and the tag is parsed fine. You can check your image and the geocoordinates inside here: http://regex.info/exif.cgi

Edit

@ratanas comment translated to code:

public boolean storeGeoCoordsToImage(File imagePath, Location location) {

    // Avoid NullPointer
    if (imagePath == null || location == null) return false;

    // If we use Location.convert(), we do not have to worry about absolute values.

    try {
        // c&p and adapted from @Fabyen (sorry for being lazy)
        ExifInterface exif = new ExifInterface(imagePath.getAbsolutePath());
        exif.setAttribute(ExifInterface.TAG_GPS_LATITUDE, getLatGeoCoordinates(location));
        exif.setAttribute(ExifInterface.TAG_GPS_LATITUDE_REF, location.getLatitude() < 0 ? "S" : "N");
        exif.setAttribute(ExifInterface.TAG_GPS_LONGITUDE, getLonGeoCoordinates(location));
        exif.setAttribute(ExifInterface.TAG_GPS_LONGITUDE_REF, location.getLongitude() < 0 ? "W" : "E");
        exif.saveAttributes();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // do something
        return false;
    }

    // Data was likely written. For sure no NullPointer. 
    return true;
}

Here are some nice LatLong converter: latlong.net