I have searched quite a bit without luck so far.
The Android Geocoder returns the android.location.Address object.
The city, as far as I understood, should be returned in getLocality().
It seems within USA this works well, outside not.
I am writing an international app and struggle to find a solution to find out the city of a geolocation.
Here the output from Czech Republic/Prague :
Address[addressLines=
[0:"Psohlavců 1764/2",
1:"147 00 Prague-Prague 4",
2:"Czech Republic"],
feature=2,
admin=Hlavní město Praha,
sub-admin=Prague,
locality=null,
thoroughfare=Psohlavců,
postalCode=147 00,
countryCode=CZ,
countryName=Czech Republic,
hasLatitude=true,
latitude=50.0276543,
hasLongitude=true,
longitude=14.4183926,
phone=null,
url=null,
extras=null]
locality is null, the city is within sub-admin !
The address itself is ok, so the geocoder server seems to know the city.
Here some ore random EU examples but locality works partly:
Address[addressLines=[0:"Nad lesem 440/34",1:"147 00 Prague-Prague 4",2:"Czech Republic"],feature=34,admin=Hlavní město Praha,sub-admin=Prague,locality=null,thoroughfare=Nad lesem,postalCode=147 00,countryCode=CZ,countryName=Czech Republic,hasLatitude=true,latitude=50.02424,hasLongitude=true,longitude=14.4117568,phone=null,url=null,extras=null]
Address[addressLines=[0:"Hauner Straße 4",1:"84431 Heldenstein",2:"Germany"],feature=4,admin=null,sub-admin=null,locality=Heldenstein,thoroughfare=Hauner Straße,postalCode=84431,countryCode=DE,countryName=Germany,hasLatitude=true,latitude=48.2540274,hasLongitude=true,longitude=12.3413535,phone=null,url=null,extras=null]
Address[addressLines=[0:"Igler Straße",1:"6020 Innsbruck",2:"Austria"],feature=Igler Straße,admin=Tyrol,sub-admin=Innsbruck,locality=Innsbruck,thoroughfare=Igler Straße,postalCode=6020,countryCode=AT,countryName=Austria,hasLatitude=true,latitude=47.2465698,hasLongitude=true,longitude=11.4054237,phone=null,url=null,extras=null]
Address[addressLines=[0:"Durnberg 24",1:"5724 Stuhlfelden",2:"Austria"],feature=24,admin=Salzburg,sub-admin=Zell am See District,locality=null,thoroughfare=Durnberg,postalCode=5724,countryCode=AT,countryName=Austria,hasLatitude=true,latitude=47.3233373,hasLongitude=true,longitude=12.4960482,phone=null,url=null,extras=null]
Address[addressLines=[0:"U Roháčových kasáren 14",1:"100 00 Prague 10",2:"Czech Republic"],feature=14,admin=Hlavní město Praha,sub-admin=Prague,locality=Prague 10,thoroughfare=U Roháčových kasáren,postalCode=null,countryCode=CZ,countryName=Czech Republic,hasLatitude=true,latitude=50.0704092,hasLongitude=true,longitude=14.4673473,phone=null,url=null,extras=null]
Maybe the fault is on me, but to me it seems like depending on the country and area the city will be found in different fields.
However, the address itself mostly seems to be good enough to send a postal letter.
Has someone written a clever function which tries to make more sense out of the Geocoder results ? It's a pity to see that Google has the information stored but does not provide it properly.
Going to close my question, solved it with a workaround.
Using the suggestion from dannyroa
String city="unknown";
if (address.getLocality() != null) city=address.getLocality();
else
if (address.getSubAdminArea() != null) city=address.getSubAdminArea();
This could be further extended by getting the city information out of the second address line.
removing the postal code and taking the remainder, but this information is not unique within a city and could change depending on the district/zone.
Looking for some help regarding querying in different verions of Android. I have the following code that returns a cursor of bookmarks. I am trying to filter the browser to return only urls that are actual bookmarks, not just browser history. It works on version 3.1 but on my new Nexus 7, it will not filter by bookmark, but instead returns all browser history in the cursor. Any insight is much appreciated. I think I have run into issues with filtering and content resolver query's not paying attention to selection parameters but can't seem to find any info. Thanks.
String[] mColumnStrings =
{
Browser.BookmarkColumns.TITLE,
Browser.BookmarkColumns.URL,
Browser.BookmarkColumns._ID,
Browser.BookmarkColumns.BOOKMARK
};
try{
bookmarksCursor = getActivity().getContentResolver().query(Browser.BOOKMARKS_URI, mColumnStrings, Browser.BookmarkColumns.BOOKMARK+ " = 1 ", null , Browser.BookmarkColumns.URL + " ASC");
getActivity().startManagingCursor(bookmarksCursor);
return bookmarksCursor;
Its working fine for me...I tested it on AVD...actually Android 4.1 already have some default bookmarks...print the Browser.BookmarkColumns.BOOKMARK as well to verify weather the results are bookmarked or not...
You can use this method specifically for your to varify...
private void varify(Cursor bookmarksCursor) {
bookmarksCursor.moveToFirst();
while(bookmarksCursor.moveToNext()) {
Log.v("title", bookmarksCursor.getString(0));
Log.v("url", bookmarksCursor.getString(1));
Log.v("id", bookmarksCursor.getString(2));
Log.v("bookmark", bookmarksCursor.getString(3));
}
}
Hope this works...
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iam just practicing with phone gap for android app. I found a piece of code in docs.phonegap.com, regarding adding contacts
function onDeviceReady()
{
alert('onDeviceReady: PhoneGap1');
var myContact = navigator.contacts.create({"displayName": "Test User"});
alert('onDeviceReady: PhoneGap2');
myContact.gender = "male";
console.log("The contact, " + myContact.displayName + ", is of the " + myContact.gender + " gender");
}
When i run this i am getting only the alert box and the name is not added in my contacts. How to add the contacts....
Please tell me how to add data and open the device default contacts...
Simon Mac Donald has written a great blog post on contacts with PhoneGap and Android.
http://simonmacdonald.blogspot.com/2011/09/saving-contacts-with-phonegap-android.html
It should help you out as there are a few steps to it.
The quick answer for those of you searching, is that you have to call
myContact.save()
in order to persist the contact that you just created.
In my app i'm trying to create a Contact by calling the standard Create/Edit contact Activity.
I've found how to make it work but not exactly the way I like.
For now I manage to call the standard create contact activity with the following intent extra:
Intent i = new Intent(ContactsContract.Intents.SHOW_OR_CREATE_CONTACT, Uri.parse(String.format("tel: %s", data.getPhone())));
i.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
i.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.EXTRA_FORCE_CREATE, true);
i.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.NAME, data.getName());
i.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.PHONE_TYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.TYPE_WORK);
i.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.PHONE, org.getPhone());
i.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.POSTAL_TYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.TYPE_WORK);
i.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.POSTAL, org.getAddress() + " " + org.getZipCode());
i.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.EMAIL_TYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.TYPE_WORK);
i.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.EMAIL, org.getEmail());
startActivity(i);
All the data is filled properly except the address field as you can see in the following picture: http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/1073/capturevvm.png
I'd like to specify each part of the address in the separate field. Is there a way to do it with an Intent?
I tried this, but it did not work.
i.putExtra(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.TYPE_WORK);
i.putExtra(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.STREET, "toto");
i.putExtra(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.CITY, "paris");
Any idea?
contactIntent.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.POSTAL, "2 rue de Romme, 75000 Paris");
contactIntent.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.POSTAL_TYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.TYPE_WORK);
You can add the contact using the technique at New contacts created using ContactsContract do not appear in Contacts app
Then show it using your technique.
I am developing app which add contact info to android contact list .to How to add postal address to contacts in android programmatically ?
It's been a while that this has been asked but maybe someone else is still interested in it. How to add a contact with address info:
import static android.provider.ContactsContract.Data;
import static android.provider.ContactsContract.Intents.Insert;
private void createContactIntent() {
Intent contactIntent = new Intent(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.ACTION, ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
contactIntent.setType(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_TYPE);
contactIntent.putExtra(Insert.NAME, "Sergio Mendes");
contactIntent.putExtra(Insert.COMPANY, "Company One");
contactIntent.putExtra(Insert.POSTAL, "Street 1, 9999 City, Country");
contactIntent.putExtra(Data.IS_SUPER_PRIMARY, 1);
startActivity(contactIntent);
}
Note that some devices like Samsung S5 / A5 will put the whole address into the "street" field. If you have any optimizations for this let me know.
Postal address are stored like all the other info in the DATA table with a
MIMEtype == ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE
Please google ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostalto find all the info.
If you need to know how to edit a contact in general I would suggest you to have a look to the SampleSyncAdapter in the Android SDK. It is a sync adapter so you don't need to study everything but updateContact in ContactManager is a good point to start with.