Hey guys,

I have done many work on this previously, like googling and all...

But, I need to get a file's creation date in android file system....

I used jdk version1.7 too(latest). It contains classes to get a file's creation date through java....

I could get a file's creation date on Windows File system but couldn't use the same code on android emulator...I use android version 2.2 ....

I saw on a android phone, too, in a file browser (built-in) while reading information of a file we get creation date too.....

Kindly, help.. thanks in advance....

Hi silentkratos,

As you probably found out in all your searching on the web. Linux doesn't store the file creation date. I couldn't tell you what these file managers (especially built-in apps) say they can do. An app that is part of the OS might well have more information than you can get at without making your own rom.

The short answer is, the File class returns the last modified date and time. If the file has not been modified since it was made, it will be the created date and time.

If these are your files that we are talking about, you could always keep your own "directory" so to speak and store that information yourself. But I don't think the OS is going to do it for you.

Hope this helps.

Phyll

Well, speaking about linux, it does as you say so...

But Microsoft Windows facilitates creation date...

Considering this, Java 1.7 consists of a new "java.nio" package which contains class "BasicFileAttrbiutes" and "FileSystems".....using these I could get the creation date on my computer... but for android it didn't work. I tried to add/include jre7 in project(android).... still it doesn't work...

Hope, now Someone could help me....

Hi silentkratos,

Android is Linux.

Good luck.

Phyll

Yeah, my friend, but I guess they added the new classes in Java to facilitate it on all OSes....But I think they didn't consider Android...
Cause while programming, when I printed the content of the FileSystems Object. it gave as WindowsFileSystem...Whoknows....there isn't a proper manual yet available...