Show Current Location and Nearby Places and Route between two places using Google Maps API in Android

Question

I need to develop an application using Google Maps in Android to locate my current location and need to find nearest location    For example  Nearby police station from my current location    It should accept my current location and output should display nearest place   Can anyone help me to give some suggestion links tutorial to do that

User · Answer

You can use google map Obtaining User Location here!

After obtaining your location(longitude and latitude), you can use google place api

This code can help you get your location easily but not the best way.

locationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
Criteria criteria = new Criteria();
String bestProvider = locationManager.getBestProvider(criteria, true);
Location location = locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(bestProvider);

User · Answer

First go through this tutorial for getting familiar with Android Google Maps and this for API 2  To retrive the current location of device see this answer or this another answer and for API 2 Then you can get places near by your location using Google Place     API and for use of Place Api see this blog  After getting Placemarks of near by location use this blog with source code to show markers on map with balloon overlay with API 2  You also have great sample to draw route between two points on map look here in these links Link1 and Link2 and this Great Answer    After following these steps you will be easily able to do your application  The only condition is  you will have to read it and understand it  because like magic its not going to be complete in a click

User · Answer

Lots of answers so far  which are all excellent pointers to API s and tutorials  One thing I d like to add is that I work out how far the markers are from my location using something like   float distance    float  loc distanceTo loc2     Hope this helps refine the detail for your problem  It returns a rough estimate of distance  in m  between points  and is useful for getting rid of POI that might be too far away - good to declutter your map

User · Answer

You have two options for displaying the Map   Use Maps Library for Android to render the Map Use Maps API V3 inside a web view   For showing local POIs around a Lat  Long use Places APIs

[android] Show Current Location and Nearby Places and Route between two places using Google Maps API in Android

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