How can I find the latitude and longitude from address?

Question

I want to show the location of an address in Google Maps.

How do I get the latitude and longitude of an address using the Google Maps API?

Answer 1

Ud_an's solution with updated API's

Note: LatLng class is part of Google Play Services.

Mandatory:

Update: If you have target SDK 23 and above, make sure you take care of runtime permission for location.

public LatLng getLocationFromAddress(Context context,String strAddress) {

    Geocoder coder = new Geocoder(context);
    List
 address;
    LatLng p1 = null;

    try {
        // May throw an IOException
        address = coder.getFromLocationName(strAddress, 5);
        if (address == null) {
            return null;
        }

        Address location = address.get(0);
        p1 = new LatLng(location.getLatitude(), location.getLongitude() );

    } catch (IOException ex) {

        ex.printStackTrace();
    }

    return p1;
}