Get the distance between two geo points

Question

I want to make an app which checks the nearest place where a user is. I can easily get the location of the user and I have already a list of places with latitude and longitu

Answer 1

you can get distance and time using google Map API Google Map API

just pass downloaded JSON to this method you will get real time Distance and Time between two latlong's

void parseJSONForDurationAndKMS(String json) throws JSONException {

    Log.d(TAG, "called parseJSONForDurationAndKMS");
    JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(json);
    String distance;
    String duration;
    distance = jsonObject.getJSONArray("routes").getJSONObject(0).getJSONArray("legs").getJSONObject(0).getJSONObject("distance").getString("text");
    duration = jsonObject.getJSONArray("routes").getJSONObject(0).getJSONArray("legs").getJSONObject(0).getJSONObject("duration").getString("text");

    Log.d(TAG, "distance : " + distance);
    Log.d(TAG, "duration : " + duration);

    distanceBWLats.setText("Distance : " + distance + "\n" + "Duration : " + duration);


}