geocoder.getFromLocationName returns only null

Question

I am going out of my mind for the last two days with an IllegalArgumentException error I receive in Android code when trying to get a coordinates out of an addr

Answer 1

I had a similar problem and found that polling the Geocoder until i got a result worked. Here is how i did it, so far works great.

try {
    List
 geoResults = geocoder.getFromLocationName("
", 1);
    while (geoResults.size()==0) {
        geoResults = geocoder.getFromLocationName("
", 1);
    }
    if (geoResults.size()>0) {
        Address addr = geoResults.get(0);
        myLocation.setLatitude(addr.getLatitude());
        myLocation.setLongitude(addr.getLongitude());
    }
} catch (Exception e) {
    System.out.print(e.getMessage());
}