Check if a file is an image or a video

Question

Is there a way to check if the file I'm loading as a URI is a image or a video in android? I'm trying to dynamically loaded both images and videos into fragments for a list/detail view and need to tell them apart.

Answer 1

I'd check the mimeType and then check if it corresponds to an image or video.

A full example, for checking if a filepath is an image, would be:

public static boolean isImageFile(String path) {     String mimeType = URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromName(path);     return mimeType != null && mimeType.startsWith("image"); } 

And for video:

public static boolean isVideoFile(String path) {     String mimeType = URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromName(path);     return mimeType != null && mimeType.startsWith("video"); } 

Answer 2

If you are getting your Uri from a content resolver you can get the mime type using getType(Uri);

ContentResolver cR = context.getContentResolver(); String type = cR.getType(uri);  

should get back something similar to "image/jpeg" which you can check against for your display logic.