A final answer on how to get Exif data from URI

Question

This topic has been discussed in lots of questions here, with mostly different results and, due to API changes and different types of URIs, no definitive answer

Answer 1

Getting EXIF from a content URI (an InputStream actually) is now available in the support library. See: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/12/introducing-the-exifinterface-support-library.html