sorting files based on its creation date in android

Question

I want list of file based on my creation date. When i updating any if images and trying to retrive all images,then orders are changed randomly.

Here is my code,

 File[] files = parentDir.listFiles();
    for (File file : files) {
// I am getting files here
    }

Any help..

Answer 1

    List<File> fileList = new ArrayList<File>();
    Collections.sort(fileList, new Comparator<File>() {

        @Override
        public int compare(File file1, File file2) {
            long k = file1.lastModified() - file2.lastModified();
            if(k > 0){
               return 1;
            }else if(k == 0){
               return 0;
            }else{
              return -1;
           }
        }
    });

Answer 2

I want list of file based on my creation date.

As the two previous answers pointed out, you can sort the files according to the modification date:

file.lastModified()

But the modification date is updated e.g. in the instant of renaming a file. So, this won't work to represent the creation date.

Unfortunately, the creation date is not available, thus you need to rethink your basic strategy:

see an old answer of CommonsWare