Survey123 not reading photo EXIF date correctly on Android devices

pangue — Thu, 09 May 2024 16:16:18 GMT

Survey123 is not reading photo EXIF date taken field correctly on Android devices when the photo is uploaded using the folder attach option.

I am using Android 9 and Android 14 devices. Both are Samsung Tablets and Samsung mobile phones.

I am using pulldata("@exif", ${reqdPhoto}, "ImageDateTime")

The issue appears to occur in the Months of January, February, March, April, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December. It however works fine in the month of May.

Survey123 is adding a "." when abbreviating the date format. This "." does not appear to be compatible with the date format entry for Survey123 bind::esri:fieldType = esriFieldTypeDate. As a result, the date is not stored.

Windows, iphone, and ipad don't appear to have this issue. They truncate the month and do not add a "."

Similarly, when I take a photo using the Survey123 app directly, the "." is not added and the photo reads the date correctly.

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Survey123 not reading photo EXIF date correctly on Android devices