[TinyTut] - Starting the Maps-Activity with an Intent

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:42 pm

What you learn: You will learn how easy it is, to start the Maps-Activity with a passeg "geo"-URI in just two lines(or one if you want to :wink:

).

Difficulty: 0 of 5 :roll:

Description
The following Code sends an Intent to the OS, which will start the registered Map-Activity with the passed "geo"-URI.
In this case it is the White-House.

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try {
        final Intent myIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("geo:38.899533,-77.036476"));
        startActivity(myIntent);
} catch (URISyntaxException e) { }
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Regards,
plusminus

tagazok · by **tagazok** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:53 pm

wow, every day, android seems easier than the day before.

AndroidBorkCreature · by **AndroidBorkCreature** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:08 pm

Hello all,
is it possible to modify the intent and to add another location in order to view a route?

Best Regards,
Paul

patrox · by **patrox** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:01 pm

AndroidBorkCreature wrote:Hello all,
is it possible to modify the intent and to add another location in order to view a route?

Best Regards,
Paul

any news on that?? what parameters can we pass to the standar map activity?

also, is there a way to get a location from the mapview back to our application?

Artur79 · by **Artur79** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 1:51 pm

I had some errors in Eclipse with this code, but works after those small fixes:

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Intent myIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
 
                                Uri.parse("geo:38.899533,-77.036476"));
 
                startActivity(myIntent);
 
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plusminus · by **plusminus** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:56 am

Hello Artur,

thanks for sharing. (replaced old stuff)
Best Regards,
plusminus

Artur79 · by **Artur79** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:08 pm

just started to learn Android so I am going throught all novice tutorials, so expect more fixes like this

You may delete my posts if you applied a fixes to tutorial code.

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:14 pm

Artur79 wrote:just started to learn Android so I am going throught all novice tutorials, so expect more fixes like this
You may delete my posts if you applied a fixes to tutorial code.

That would be great :!:

NevinM · by **NevinM** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:39 am

How can you code this to open with current GPS location or pass no geo URI, so that Maps opens to the last location in maps?

gustavo · by **gustavo** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:31 pm

tagazok wrote:wow, every day, android seems easier than the day before.

Yea, but now, dealing with maps seems harder each day...

Audiofreq · by **Audiofreq** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:55 am

Hi,

If you are viewing a contact with an address clicking on the address opens the map application with the address written in a bubble.
If there is a potential number of possible addresses to display the option is given to the user.

How can i implement this intent?

I looked at the LogCat and when this activity is started the output is:

Starting activity: Intent { action=android.intent.action.VIEW data=content://contacts/people/24/contact_methods/1 comp={com.google.android.apps.maps/com.google.android.maps.MapsActivity} }

EDIT: Oops i figured it out.

For anyone interested the possible formats are:

geo:latitude,longitude
geo:latitude,longitude?z=zoom
geo:0,0?q=my+street+address
geo:0,0?q=business+near+city

zoniq · by **zoniq** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:41 pm

patrox wrote:
AndroidBorkCreature wrote:Hello all,
is it possible to modify the intent and to add another location in order to view a route?

Best Regards,
Paul

any news on that?? what parameters can we pass to the standar map activity?

also, is there a way to get a location from the mapview back to our application?

I'm interested in that as well. Any news?

ggerz · by **ggerz** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:02 pm

Hi there,

Calling google apps with an URI:

http://developer.android.com/guide/appe ... tents.html

(extracted from previous link) for geo we have
Google Maps geo:latitude,longitude
geo:latitude,longitude?z=zoom
geo:0,0?q=my+street+address
geo:0,0?q=business+near+city
VIEW Opens the Maps application to the given location or query. The Geo URI scheme (not fully supported) is currently under development.
The z field specifies the zoom level. A zoom level of 1 shows the whole Earth, centered at the given lat,lng. A zoom level of 2 shows a quarter of the Earth, and so on. The highest zoom level is 23. A larger zoom level will be clamped to 23.

If you want to experiment, more information here
http://geouri.org/2009/04/02/android-im ... ification/

rakeshsoni · by **rakeshsoni** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:04 pm

I am getting following exception when trying to run above code...... please help

android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=geo:38.899533,-77.036476 }

sumit_android · by **sumit_android** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:41 am

Hi,
please anyone give me the code to modify the intent in order to draw a route in between two different location on MAP.

[TinyTut] - Starting the Maps-Activity with an Intent

[TinyTut] - Starting the Maps-Activity with an Intent

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