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Location and GeoPoint distanceTo()

I have location of user(class Location). And list of GeoPoints. Is it some function to calculate distance? Or write own function it is the only solution?

Solution

  • I believe the easiest way would be to use the distanceBetween function in the Android Location class.

    Location userLocation = new Location();
GeoPoint geoPoint = new GeoPoint();
float[] results = new float[3];
Location.distanceBetween(userLocation.getLatitude(), userLocation.getLongitude(), (geoPoint.getLatitudeE6()/1E6), (geoPoint.getLongitudeE6()/1E6), results); 
//result[0] = distance in m