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Android - Open Google Map and Do a search

I need to make an Android app that open Google Map(already installed on my device) and do a search with given text
EX: When I type "Restaurant" in textBox and click button "Search" in my app, it will open Google Maps and search for "Restaurant"
Can anyone help?! Thanks in advance

Make use of the Google Maps Intent to perform this task. Intents help communicate the data from one place to another. In this case its your app and the Google Maps app.
What you need to do is to pass the data that someone has searched in the text box of your app to the Google Maps app directly if its installed. Using geolocation API convert the enterred text into Lat/Lng values. You need to set the package as com.google.android.apps.maps and start the activity.
Here is the full code:
// Create a Uri from an intent string. Use the result to create an Intent.
Uri gmmIntentUri = Uri.parse("google.streetview:cbll=46.414382,10.013988");
// Create an Intent from gmmIntentUri. Set the action to ACTION_VIEW
Intent mapIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, gmmIntentUri);
// Make the Intent explicit by setting the Google Maps package
mapIntent.setPackage("com.google.android.apps.maps");
// Attempt to start an activity that can handle the Intent
startActivity(mapIntent);
For complete documentation read the official page.

Launch Google Navigation without routes choosing

I am launching Google Navigation with intent:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=" + mCity));
intent.setClassName("com.google.android.apps.maps", "com.google.android.maps.MapsActivity");
startActivity(intent);
It build route from my current location to destination city. But sometimes it give me few routes. Is there way to force give me always only one route?

It is just launching Google Navigation app with destination and current address, so it will depend on user to choose one route as is case with regular navigation app.

Navigation Intent on Android is not working

I would like to call a navigation Intent using given source and destination point, by the way I am trying these codes
Intent navIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,Uri.parse(http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr="sourcelat&long"&daddr="destinationlat&long"&mode="driving"));
navIntent.setClassName("com.google.android.apps.maps","com.google.android.maps.MapsActivity");startActivity(navIntent);
As per the method above I am getting the navigation fine but by default destination address is taken as current location eventhough we are passing the destination address. so my need is that device should not take destination address as current device location instead it should take from Intent as we are passing . Please suggest me how to solve this.
Regards
Priya

You can do it this way i think.
But it use Google Maps and not Google Navigation.
Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
Uri.parse("http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=20.344,34.34&daddr=20.5666,45.345"));
startActivity(intent);
Source: Google Navigation intent

Is it possible to programmatically access the Google Maps' navigation history?

I wonder if it possible to retrieve the Google Maps navigation history. In other words, is there a way of retrieving the recent routes taken/searched by the user of the Google Maps app?
Thanks

You can not finish Google Navigation App.
There is only one work around which I found,
Re-start the navigation with the current location, hence the navigation will automatically be finished.
public static void startNavigationIntent(Context activity, String destination)
{
Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("google.navigation:q=" + destination));
activity.startActivity(intent);
}
And then bring your app to the foreground.
Intent bringToForegroundIntent = new Intent(BackgroundLocationService.this, DashboardActivity.class);
bringToForegroundIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_RESET_TASK_IF_NEEDED | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(bringToForegroundIntent);

There is no API available to get information out of the Navigation App. But you can feed some data to Maps to request a route through an Intent / URI.
But I don't think that the Maps app will save the whole route anyway, only the destination. The user selects any saved destination and you can get there from any source.

Launch directly the directions on Google Maps

I want to launch the Google Maps app from my android application with the driving directions view.
I gone through the following posts but they don't serve my purpose.
Launch Google Maps to show road directions
How to programmatically launch map appliction in android to show direction?
I tried the following code...
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
Uri.parse("http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&daddr=51.448,-0.972"));
intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.google.android.apps.maps",
"com.google.android.maps.MapsActivity"));
startActivity(intent);
Which gives me the following view,
Then I need to click 'Get Directions' button to get the following view,
And then I need to click 'DIRECTIONS LIST' to get the following view,
Is there a way to directly launch the 3rd view (as above) from my android application?

Yes You can directly open direction view Using google.navigation.
Just pass Destination address and it will give direction from current location to destination address:
Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
Uri.parse("google.navigation:q=destination address"));
startActivity(intent);