Introduction

INTUZ is presenting an interesting Address Picker component to integrate inside your Native Android based application. Address Picker is a simple component, which lets you pick a location from map and search using Google Places API. You will get a latitude, longitude and full address for selected location.

Please follow the below steps to integrate this control in your project.

Features

• Easy & Fast to retrive location.
• You can select a location from Google Place API or User’s current location.
• Can Customize according to requirement.

Getting Started

To use this component in your project you need to perform below steps:

1. Configure your app in Google API Console to get API Key and enable services.

https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/dashboard

2. Enable below services in API Console.

  Google Maps Android API
  
  Google Places API for Android
  

3. Permission and declaration in AndroidManifest.xml file

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />

Note: replace ‘’ with your google api key in manifeast.xml file.

4. Start Address picker request by putting below code in your view :

                  Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, LocationPickerActivity.class);
                  startActivityForResult(intent, ADDRESS_PICKER_REQUEST);

5. Handle your onActivityResult for getting address, latitude and longitude as:

     @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

        if (requestCode == ADDRESS_PICKER_REQUEST) {
            try {
                if (data != null && data.getStringExtra("address") != null) {
                    String address = data.getStringExtra("address");
                    double currentLatitude = data.getDoubleExtra("lat", 0.0);
                    double currentLongitude = data.getDoubleExtra("long", 0.0);
                    txtAddress.setText("Address: "+address);
                    txtLatLong.setText("Lat:"+currentLatitude+"  Long:"+currentLongitude);

                }
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
    

Bugs and Feedback

For bugs, questions and discussions please use the Github Issues.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

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