How to Get name of the place using longitude and latitude?

[Himanshu Gupta]

I am developing an application which will determine in which building/college/University you are?
Then it will find the available labs in that building. I have the coordinates of those places.
I want to know that once I get the current location in terms of longitude and latitude how will I get the name of that place?
I have seen some applications which checks you in when you go to some coffee place or pubs.


Thanks for the help.

[zoheb hassan]

you can use Geocoding to determine the name of the place

[Himanshu Gupta]

I Just want to confirm that the Geocoder will give the name of the city. Can I get the name of the place as well?

Thanks for the reply.

[zoheb hassan]

If by name of the place you mean building name then i dont think it would work but you can retrieve street address and city name

[Himanshu Gupta]

Thanks.

I looked the Geocoder class and I think that can help me in getting what I need.
Is anyone here aware of the problem of Samsung Galaxy GPS system?
If yes is there any solution to that?
I have tried some approaches but nothing worked.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Is anyone here aware of the problem of Samsung Galaxy GPS system?

What is "the problem"?

[Himanshu Gupta]

The GPS system is not reliable. It stops working or I should say it works randomly.
There is a lot of buzz in the community regarding the same. A quick Google search will yield thousands of complaints.

[Himanshu Gupta]

Is it possible to get the directions as well using the longitude and latitude.
I want to locate the user on his co-ordinates and then other objects in a plane by maintaining their relative positioning.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Anything related to "getting directions" will likely involve calls to the Google Maps web service. I don't think Android comes with an API that wraps those calls in Java classes, but such classes probably exist somewhere out on the net.