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user2949434
user2949434

Reputation: 35

android app: get distance between two addresses

This is my first time development in android application. This app will calculate the total distance between two address that input by the user in order to get the total distance. Is it ok to calculate the distance that assume the road is straight? by the way, this application will not show map and does not need GPS! It just needs to use geocoder to get the latitude-longitude.

Here are my questions:

  1. what would the AndroidManifest.xml would look like? do i need to include android:name=".permission.MAPS_RECEIVE".
  2. In the main_activity.java, should i use activity or use fragment activity? public class MainActivity extends Activity

Thanks for your reply and i would like to appreciate u guys and if possible can you please show the full AndroidManifext.xml code?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4991

Answers (2)

athor
athor

Reputation: 6928

You don't need to include the maps permissions.

To get the distance between 2 locations you can use the Geocoder class. This shouldn't need an y location permissions either.

The Geocoder class has a method

getFromLocationName(String locationName, int maxResults)

which returns a list of Addresses for a location input. The addresses have a latitude/longitude.

You need to convert the Address into a Location object which has methods for calculating distance between 2 locations:

distanceTo(Location dest)
Returns the approximate distance in meters between this location and the given location.

As for your second question. You should use Fragments inside of your activity. Have a read through this to understand a bit more about fragments and their advantages.

Upvotes: 1

user2534313
user2534313

Reputation:

Use the Geocoder to get the latitude and longitude for place 1 and place 2. Apply those values in the following method.

Location.distanceBetween(startLatitude, startLongitude, endLatitude, endLongitude, results)

Upvotes: 1

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