Hi All

I'm working on a project that takes in an address and gets the latitude and longitude of the address. I haven't done anything complicated yet. I just created the project and added one line

private Geocoder g = new Geocoder(this);

When I compile the code and execute it, I get the following error on the emulator, "The Application Testing Geocoder has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."

I have also added the two lines to the AndroidManifest.xml as follows, within the <application> </application> tags.

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

Can someone figure out what's wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

The only permission you would need is:

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


Is your "this" not an activity context?

public class GeoCoderTool
{

public static void GeoCodeTextMessage(String incomingAddress, Context mCtx)
{
Geocoder myCoder = new Geocoder(mCtx);

List<Address> addressList = null;

try
{
addressList = myCoder.getFromLocationName(incomingAddress, 1);
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}


if(addressList == null)
{
System.out.println("GEO CODER FAILED TO INITIALIZE");
}
else if(addressList.size() == 0)
{
System.out.println("GEO CODER FAILED TO RETURN RESULTS");
}
else
{
System.out.println("Latitude: " + addressList.get(0).getLatitude());
System.out.println("Longitude: " + addressList.get(0).getLongitude());
}
}

}

I put my permissions below the manifests tags above the application tags as well, not sure if that matters.

I'm declaring the Geocoder instance within the main class.. I'm including my whole code below.. Please check if something's wrong with it..



As you can probably see, there is nothing here that can possible go wrong, since I'm only declaring an instance of Geocoder.

package test.geo;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.location.Geocoder;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class TestGeo extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
private Geocoder g;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
g = new Geocoder(this);
}
}

You need to call super before you can use this.