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Kartik Domadiya
Kartik Domadiya

Reputation: 29968

Locating nearby Shopping Malls and their Stores using GPS/Wifi in Android

I want to develop an android application, that gets my current location thru GPS and displays me the nearby Shopping Malls and their Shops.

So for i have learned about Location API from vogella.de ..

Again i saw discussion here about getting current location.

I got success in getting current location so far.

When i searched for such applications in itunes, i got two apps..

1st ClipMobile.

2nd Armadealo Shopping

I want to display this things in android. How can i start ? See the screenshots :

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 21828

Answers (2)

ddewaele
ddewaele

Reputation: 22603

Google offers this through their Google Places API. For some basic info on how to get started with the Google Places API see this question.

Information on the Google Places REST API can be found at the The Google Places API (Developer Preview)

AFAIK, there is no clean-cut client library available, but here's a blog post on how to properly sign the requests to the Google Places API. The request themselves are covered in the Google docs.

Upvotes: 1

Drew Dara-Abrams
Drew Dara-Abrams

Reputation: 8054

The pieces you need are: (A) determine user's position (B) search a point of interest (POI) database for nearby shopping malls (C) plot results on a map display

Sounds like you're set on (A). For (B), I recommend looking at the POI offerings from SimpleGeo or CloudMade. (Note that if you're going for non-U.S. coverage, you may need to find different POI providers.) And for (C) you can use Google Maps for Android or CloudMade's SDK.

Upvotes: 2

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