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

public LatLang getLatLangFromAddress(String strAddress){
    Geocoder coder = new Geocoder(this, Locale.getDefault());
    List
 address;
    try {
        address = coder.getFromLocationName(strAddress,5);
        if (address == null) {
                return new LatLang(-10000, -10000);
            }
            Address location = address.get(0);
            return new LatLang(location.getLatitude(), location.getLongitude());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            return new LatLang(-10000, -10000);
        }
    }            

LatLang is a pojo class in this case.

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