Thursday, October 30, 2014

Example of using Here Geocoder API on Android

The simplest use of the Here Geocoder API is to search for an address using complete or partial address information in a single-line input field, the searchtext parameter. Any address information can be provided in the single input field, country, state, county, city, street, house number, or postal code.

You can try the example here:
http://geocoder.cit.api.here.com/6.2/geocode.xml?searchtext=425+W+Randolph+Street+Chicago&gen=7&app_id=DemoAppId01082013GAL&app_code=AJKnXv84fjrb0KIHawS0Tg


This example show how to parse the returned XML on Android.


MainActivity.java
package com.example.androidheregeocoder;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;
import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException;
import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

 public class GeocodingTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {

  TextView textViewRqs, textViewParsed;
  String rqs;

  GeocodingTask(TextView vRqs, TextView vParsed) {
   textViewRqs = vRqs;
   textViewParsed = vParsed;
  }

  @Override
  protected String doInBackground(String... params) {

   final String rqs = "http://geocoder.cit.api.here.com/6.2/geocode.xml"
     + "?searchtext=" + params[0] + "&gen=7"
     + "&app_id=DemoAppId01082013GAL"
     + "&app_code=AJKnXv84fjrb0KIHawS0Tg";

   runOnUiThread(new Runnable(){

    @Override
    public void run() {
     textViewRqs.setText(rqs);
    }});
   
   return Parse(rqs).toString();
  }

  @Override
  protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
   textViewParsed.setText(result);
  }

  private HereResponse Parse(String urlString) {
   HereResponse hereResponse = new HereResponse();

   final String XmlTag_Response = "Response";
   final String XmlTag_MetaInfo = "MetaInfo";
   final String XmlTag_Timestamp = "Timestamp";
   final String XmlTag_View = "View";
   final String XmlTag_ViewId = "ViewId";
   final String XmlTag_Result = "Result";
   final String XmlTag_Location = "Location";
   
   final String XmlTag_DisplayPosition = "DisplayPosition";
   final String XmlTag_NavigationPosition = "NavigationPosition";
   final String XmlTag_TopLeft = "TopLeft";
   final String XmlTag_BottomRight = "BottomRight";
   
   final String XmlTag_Latitude = "Latitude";
   final String XmlTag_Longitude = "Longitude";
   
   final String XmlTag_Label = "Label";
   final String XmlTag_Country = "Country";
   final String XmlTag_State = "State";
   final String XmlTag_County = "County";
   final String XmlTag_City = "City";
   final String XmlTag_District = "District";
   final String XmlTag_Street = "Street";
   final String XmlTag_HouseNumber = "HouseNumber";
   final String XmlTag_PostalCode = "PostalCode";
   
   String xmlPara = "";
   String xmlGroupPara = "";

   XmlPullParserFactory factory;
   try {
    factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();
    factory.setNamespaceAware(false);
    XmlPullParser xpp = factory.newPullParser();
    xpp.setInput((new URL(urlString)).openConnection()
      .getInputStream(), "UTF_8");

    int eventType;
    do {
     xpp.next();
     eventType = xpp.getEventType();

     switch (eventType) {
     case XmlPullParser.START_DOCUMENT:
      xmlPara = "";  //0;
      xmlGroupPara = ""; //0;
      break;

     case XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT:
      break;

     case XmlPullParser.START_TAG:
      String tag = xpp.getName();
      
      xmlPara = tag;

      if(tag.equals(XmlTag_DisplayPosition)
       || tag.equals(XmlTag_NavigationPosition)
       || tag.equals(XmlTag_TopLeft)
       || tag.equals(XmlTag_BottomRight)){
       xmlGroupPara = tag;
      }

      break;

     case XmlPullParser.END_TAG:
      break;

     case XmlPullParser.TEXT:
      
      if(xmlPara.equals(XmlTag_Timestamp)){
       hereResponse.Timestamp = xpp.getText();
      }else if(xmlPara.equals(XmlTag_ViewId)){
       hereResponse.ViewId = xpp.getText();
      }else if(xmlPara.equals(XmlTag_Latitude)){
       if(xmlGroupPara.equals(XmlTag_DisplayPosition)){
        hereResponse.DisplayPosition_Latitude = xpp.getText();
       }else if(xmlGroupPara.equals(XmlTag_NavigationPosition)){
        hereResponse.NavigationPosition_Latitude = xpp.getText();
       }else if(xmlGroupPara.equals(XmlTag_TopLeft)){
        hereResponse.TopLeft_Latitude = xpp.getText();
       }else if(xmlGroupPara.equals(XmlTag_BottomRight)){
        hereResponse.BottomRight_Latitude = xpp.getText();
       }
      }else if(xmlPara.equals(XmlTag_Longitude)){
       if(xmlGroupPara.equals(XmlTag_DisplayPosition)){
        hereResponse.DisplayPosition_Longitude = xpp.getText();
       }else if(xmlGroupPara.equals(XmlTag_NavigationPosition)){
        hereResponse.NavigationPosition_Longitude = xpp.getText();
       }else if(xmlGroupPara.equals(XmlTag_TopLeft)){
        hereResponse.TopLeft_Longitude = xpp.getText();
       }else if(xmlGroupPara.equals(XmlTag_BottomRight)){
        hereResponse.BottomRight_Longitude = xpp.getText();
       }
      }else if(xmlPara.equals(XmlTag_Label)){
       hereResponse.Label = xpp.getText();
      }else if(xmlPara.equals(XmlTag_Country)){
       hereResponse.Country = xpp.getText();
      }else if(xmlPara.equals(XmlTag_State)){
       hereResponse.State = xpp.getText();
      }else if(xmlPara.equals(XmlTag_County)){
       hereResponse.County = xpp.getText();
      }else if(xmlPara.equals(XmlTag_City)){
       hereResponse.City = xpp.getText();
      }else if(xmlPara.equals(XmlTag_District)){
       hereResponse.District = xpp.getText();
      }else if(xmlPara.equals(XmlTag_Street)){
       hereResponse.Street = xpp.getText();
      }else if(xmlPara.equals(XmlTag_HouseNumber)){
       hereResponse.HouseNumber = xpp.getText();
      }else if(xmlPara.equals(XmlTag_PostalCode)){
       hereResponse.PostalCode = xpp.getText();
      }
      
      break;
     }

    } while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT);
   } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
    hereResponse.err = (e.getMessage());
    e.printStackTrace();
   } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
    hereResponse.err = (e.getMessage());
    e.printStackTrace();
   } catch (IOException e) {
    hereResponse.err = (e.getMessage());
    e.printStackTrace();
   }

   return hereResponse;
  }

 }

 public class HereResponse {

  String Timestamp = "";
  String ViewId = "";
  String DisplayPosition_Latitude = "";
  String DisplayPosition_Longitude = "";
  String NavigationPosition_Latitude = "";
  String NavigationPosition_Longitude = "";
  String TopLeft_Latitude = "";
  String TopLeft_Longitude = "";
  String BottomRight_Latitude = "";
  String BottomRight_Longitude = "";
  
  String Label = "";
  String Country = "";
  String State = "";
  String County = "";
  String City = "";
  String District = "";
  String Street = "";
  String HouseNumber = "";
  String PostalCode = "";
  
  String err = "";

  public String toString() {
   return "Timestamp: " + Timestamp + "\n"
    + "ViewId: " + ViewId + "\n"
    + "DisplayPosition_Latitude: " + DisplayPosition_Latitude + "\n"
    + "DisplayPosition_Longitude: " + DisplayPosition_Longitude + "\n"
    + "NavigationPosition_Latitude: " + NavigationPosition_Latitude + "\n"
    + "NavigationPosition_Longitude: " + NavigationPosition_Longitude + "\n"
    + "TopLeft_Latitude: " + TopLeft_Latitude + "\n"
    + "TopLeft_Longitude: " + TopLeft_Longitude + "\n"
    + "BottomRight_Latitude: " + BottomRight_Latitude + "\n"
    + "BottomRight_Longitude: " + BottomRight_Longitude + "\n"
    
    + "Label: " + Label + "\n"
    + "Country: " + Country + "\n"
    + "State: " + State + "\n"
    + "County: " + County + "\n"
    + "City: " + City + "\n"
    + "District: " + District + "\n"
    + "Street: " + Street + "\n"
    + "HouseNumber: " + HouseNumber + "\n"
    + "PostalCode: " + PostalCode + "\n"
    
    + "err: " + err;
  }
 }

 EditText textAddressIn;
 Button buttonGet;
 TextView textRqs, textParsed;

 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
  textAddressIn = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.addressin);
  buttonGet = (Button) findViewById(R.id.get);
  textRqs = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textrqs);
  textParsed = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textparsed);

  // for easy testing
  textAddressIn.setText("425 W Randolph Street in Chicago");

  buttonGet.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

   @Override
   public void onClick(View v) {
    String strIn = textAddressIn.getText().toString();
    if (!strIn.equals("")) {
     String strHtml = strIn.replace(" ", "+");
     
     getGetGeocode(strHtml);
    }
   }
  });
 }

 private void getGetGeocode(String addr) {
  new GeocodingTask(textRqs, textParsed).execute(addr);
 }

}

/res/layout/activity_main.xml
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="com.example.androidheregeocoder.MainActivity" >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:autoLink="web"
        android:text="http://android-er.blogspot.com/"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/addressin"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/get"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Get Geocode" />
    
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textrqs"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    <ScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textparsed"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
    </ScrollView>

</LinearLayout>

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