Get last Modified Date of Files in a directory

Question

I am having some trouble displaying the files currently modified date.

public class MyAdapter extends ArrayAdapter {

String dir = \"/FileDire         


        

Answer 1

In your question, you are pointing a Directory, not a File.

File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + dir);


private final Activity context;

Date lastModified = new Date(file.lastModified()); 
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss");  
String formattedDateString = formatter.format(lastModified);

The idea is to get a Directory and iterate searching for the Last modified date of all files. The following question may help: How to get only 10 last modified files from directory using Java?

EDIT 1:

My Tricky Solution:

File images = new File("YourDirectoryPath");
long[] fileModifieDate = new long[images.listFiles().length];
int i=0;

        File[] imagelist = images.listFiles(new FilenameFilter()
        {

            public boolean accept(File dir, String name)
            {
                File file = new File(dir, name);
                fileModifieDate[i++] = file.lastModified();
                return true;
            }

        });
// Here, max is the last modified date for this directory 
// Here, Long array **fileModifieDate** will give modified time of all files, which you can also access from Files array
// if you want the last modified file in the directory you can do this:


        File[] maxModifiedDate = images.listFiles(new FilenameFilter()
        {

            public boolean accept(File dir, String name)
            {
                File file = new File(dir, name);

                return file.lastModified() == max;
            }

        });

// Now **maxModifiedDate** File array will have only one File, which will have max modified date.

EDIT 2:

For your case, this would be helpful:

public class MyAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String> {

String dir = "/FileDirectory/";

File myFolder= new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + dir);
if(myFolder.exists()){


    File[] filelist = myFolder.listFiles(new FilenameFilter()
    {

        public boolean accept(File dir, String name)
        {  
            return true;
        }

    }); 
}   

// Now you have a filelist array of Files. If you want lastModified data, you can fetch from each individual file as you were doing previously:

  private final Activity context;

    Date lastModified = new Date(file.lastModified()); 
    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss");  
    String formattedDateString = formatter.format(lastModified); 

    private String dateFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss";

Answer 2

Complete code to get the last modified date

    File file = new File("c:\\test\\myfile.txt");
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss");
    System.out.println("Modified Date :- " + sdf.format(file.lastModified()));

Answer 3

File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + dir);

Points to directory, not a file.

If you need modified date of each file separately in a directory, just use walkfiletree.

Check this.

Answer 4

I tried the answer of Anonymous Mohit, but it only checks the file size of items inside the folder. But what if there are many subfolders? Here's how I did it.

public static long lastModifiedDate;
public static long getLastModified(String path) {
    File directory = new File(path);
    File[] files = directory.listFiles();
    if(GlobalValues.DEBUG) Log.i(TAG, "Get last modified date: " + path);
    if (files.length == 0) return directory.lastModified();
    else {
        for(File filesInFolder: files) {
            if(filesInFolder.isDirectory()) {
                getLastModified(filesInFolder.getAbsolutePath());
            } else {
                if(lastModifiedDate == 0) {
                    lastModifiedDate = filesInFolder.lastModified();
                } else{
                    if(filesInFolder.lastModified() >= lastModifiedDate){
                        lastModifiedDate = filesInFolder.lastModified();
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return lastModifiedDate;
    }
}