How to get the Image Format of the images from Gallery

Question

I want to know the Image format (i.e. JPFG/PNG etc) of the images which I am getting from the gallery.

My need is to pic images from the gallery of the device and send it to server in Base64 format but the server wants to know image format.

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

It is possible to get MIME type with path alone.

 public static String getMimeType(String imageUrl) {
        String extension = MimeTypeMap.getFileExtensionFromUrl(imageUrl);
        String mimeType = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension(
                extension);
        // Do Manual manipulation if needed
        if ("image/x-ms-bmp".equals(mimeType)) {
            mimeType = "image/bmp";
        }
        return mimeType;
    }