How To Make Sort Gallery Thumbnails Image By Date

I am developing an android applicaiton. This application get all thumbnail images from gallery. I want to sort these thumbnails by date, but I can't do it. Please help me. Get all

Solution 1:

Update columns and orderBy like this:

String[] columns = {MediaStore.Images.Media._ID, MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.DATE_TAKEN};

  String orderBy = MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.DATE_TAKEN + " DESC"; 

and see if that helps.

You could also fetch real images instead of thumbnails and use image loading library that will take care of proper re-sizing. In this case replace your Thumbnails references with ImageColumns

Solution 2:

this code will save the first 100 thumbs (SORTED by date)

Cursorcursor=this.getContentResolver().query( MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
                projection, // Which columns to returnnull,       // Return all rowsnull,
                "image_id DESC");

// Get the column index of the Thumbnails Image IDintcolumnIndex= cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.DATA);
        for(inti=0;i<cursor.getCount();i++){
            if (i==100) break;
            cursor.moveToPosition(i);
            mImagesFromGallery[i] = cursor.getString(columnIndex);
        }
        cursor.close();