set orientation of android camera started with intent ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE [duplicate]

Answer 1

The above answer is very thorough, but I found I had to do a little bit more in order for every case to work, especially if you're dealing with images from other sources such as the Gallery or Google Photos. Here's my DetermineOrientation method. I have a utility class where this is located so I have to pass in the Activity in order to use managedQuery(which btw is deprecated so use cautiously). The reason I have to use two methods is because, depending on the source of the image, ExifInterface will not work. For instance, if I take a camera photo, Exif works fine. However, if I'm also choosing images from the Gallery or Google Drive, Exif does not work and always returns 0. Hope this helps someone.

public static int DetermineOrientation(Activity activity, Uri fileUri)
{
    int orientation = -1;
    int rotate = 0;
    try {

        ExifInterface exif = new ExifInterface(fileUri.getPath());
        orientation = exif.getAttributeInt(
                ExifInterface.TAG_ORIENTATION, ExifInterface.ORIENTATION_NORMAL);
        rotate = 0;
        switch (orientation) {
            case ExifInterface.ORIENTATION_ROTATE_270:
                rotate = 270;
            case ExifInterface.ORIENTATION_ROTATE_180:
                rotate = 180;
            case ExifInterface.ORIENTATION_ROTATE_90:
                rotate = 90;
        }
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    if(rotate == 0)
    {
        String[] orientationColumn = {MediaStore.Images.Media.ORIENTATION};
        Cursor cur = activity.managedQuery(fileUri, orientationColumn, null, null, null);
        orientation = -1;
        if (cur != null && cur.moveToFirst()) {
            orientation = cur.getInt(cur.getColumnIndex(orientationColumn[0]));
        }

        if(orientation != -1)
        {
            rotate = orientation;
        }
    }

    return rotate;
}