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

Had the same problem. Pooling didn't work so I used this to get the location: Geocoding Responses

Use this class to get JSONObject of location:

public class GetLocationDownloadTask extends AsyncTask {

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


        String result = "";
        URL url;
        HttpURLConnection urlConnection;
        try {
            url = new URL(strings[0]);
            urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            InputStream is = urlConnection.getInputStream();
            InputStreamReader inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(is);

            int data = inputStreamReader.read();
            while(data != -1){
                char curr = (char) data;
                result += curr;
                data = inputStreamReader.read();
            }
            return result;

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
        super.onPostExecute(result);

        if(result != null) {
            try {
                JSONObject locationObject = new JSONObject(result);
                JSONObject locationGeo = locationObject.getJSONArray("results").getJSONObject(0).getJSONObject("geometry").getJSONObject("location");


            } catch (JSONException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }

    }

You can create and run the class instance like this:

String link = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=" + addressString + "&key={YOUR_API_KEY}";

GetLocationDownloadTask getLocation = new GetLocationDownloadTask();

getLocation.execute(link);