Android: How to get a file's creation date?
The file creation date is not an available, but you can get the last-modified date:
File file = new File(filePath);
Date lastModDate = new Date(file.lastModified());
System.out.println("File last modified @ : "+ lastModDate.toString());
Here's how I would do it
// Used to examplify deletion of files more than 1 month old
// Note the L that tells the compiler to interpret the number as a Long
final int MAXFILEAGE = 2678400000L; // 1 month in milliseconds
// Get file handle to the directory. In this case the application files dir
File dir = new File(getFilesDir().toString());
// Obtain list of files in the directory.
// listFiles() returns a list of File objects to each file found.
File[] files = dir.listFiles();
// Loop through all files
for (File f : files ) {
// Get the last modified date. Milliseconds since 1970
Long lastmodified = f.lastModified();
// Do stuff here to deal with the file..
// For instance delete files older than 1 month
if(lastmodified+MAXFILEAGE<System.currentTimeMillis()) {
f.delete();
}
}
The file creation date is not an available piece of data exposed by the Java File
class. I recommend you rethink what you are doing and change your plan so you will not need it.