Is there a reason why the camera app on the emulator is saving photos without any EXIF data bar the dimensions?

Is this just on the emulator or on real android devices too?

Have you tried looking at the picture that is being taken by the camera application? Then you might stop wondering

Yeh I have, it shouldn't matter that the picture is just a placeholder, if you are trying to write an app that access exif data from the photos taken with the device you have to work around it. Thanks Android.