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Raj
Raj

Reputation: 864

how to find distance from polyline in android?

How to find distance from polyline in google map in android using map apiV2 ? I want to find distance when user start moving from one location to another . I used the Calculate distance in meters when you know longitude and latitude in java but it takes distance between two lat-long not as per user moves in map. Please help me if anyone knows how to find distance using polyline.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3396

Answers (3)

Gevaria Purva
Gevaria Purva

Reputation: 552

For finding distance from your polyline you can use PolyUtil class which contains one method distanceToLine . implementation'com.google.maps.android:android-maps-utils:0.5+' add this library in your build.gradle. For more you can use Google map utility class

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android-api/utility/

Upvotes: 3

Odys
Odys

Reputation: 9080

Based on the answer given by Gevaria Purva I found a more appropriate method on PolyUtil named isLocationOnPath. For the third parameter most likely you want to pass true.

Upvotes: 0

Raj Shah
Raj Shah

Reputation: 322

For this you need to use thread. In that at regular interval you should find the distance between current coordinates and last saved coordinate.

Raw code:

Coordinate current, last;
Distance D = 0;

while (true) {
  wait(10000);
  last = current;
  current = getNewCordinate;
  d = D + distFrom(current, last);
}

This logic will help.

Upvotes: 1

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