Google direction route from current location to known location
I use the MapsActivity class in this project. On my map you can see many markers. I have many known locations, but in my code I just display two locations for example.
I don't understand how to use the direction API and JSON. How can I display the route, distance, and travelling time from my current location (changing) to a known location (constant)?
public class MapsActivity extends FragmentActivity {
private GoogleMap mMap; // Might be null if Google Play services APK is not available.
private Map<Marker, Class<?>> allMarkersMap = new HashMap<Marker, Class<?>>();
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_maps);
setUpMapIfNeeded();
}
private void setUpMap() {
Marker marker1 = mMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions()
.position(new LatLng(14.608177, 120.967422))
.title("Sample2")
.snippet("zzzzzzz"));
allMarkersMap.put(marker1, MainActivity.class);
Marker marker2 = mMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions()
.position(new LatLng(14.611335, 120.962160))
.title("Sample1")
.snippet("sssssss"));
allMarkersMap.put(marker2, MainActivity2Activity.class);
mMap.setMyLocationEnabled(true);
mMap.setOnInfoWindowClickListener(new GoogleMap.OnInfoWindowClickListener() {
@Override
public void onInfoWindowClick(Marker marker) {
Class<?> cls = allMarkersMap.get(marker);
Intent intent = new Intent(MapsActivity.this, cls);
startActivity(intent);
}
});
}
Answer
Have a look at this tutorial:
It shows how to draw a route map between two points, calculate distance and travel time.
If you are having problems in following the tutorial, download the Android Studio sample project from the link below:
public class DirectionsJSONParser {
/** Receives a JSONObject and returns a list of lists containing latitude and longitude */
public List<List<HashMap<String,String>>> parse(JSONObject jObject){
List<List<HashMap<String, String>>> routes = new ArrayList<List<HashMap<String,String>>>() ;
JSONArray jRoutes = null;
JSONArray jLegs = null;
JSONArray jSteps = null;
try {
jRoutes = jObject.getJSONArray("routes");
/** Traversing all routes */
for(int i=0;i<jRoutes.length();i++){
jLegs = ( (JSONObject)jRoutes.get(i)).getJSONArray("legs");
List path = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();
/** Traversing all legs */
for(int j=0;j<jLegs.length();j++){
jSteps = ( (JSONObject)jLegs.get(j)).getJSONArray("steps");
/** Traversing all steps */
for(int k=0;k<jSteps.length();k++){
String polyline = "";
polyline = (String)((JSONObject)((JSONObject)jSteps.get(k)).get("polyline")).get("points");
List<LatLng> list = decodePoly(polyline);
/** Traversing all points */
for(int l=0;l<list.size();l++){
HashMap<String, String> hm = new HashMap<String, String>();
hm.put("lat", Double.toString(((LatLng)list.get(l)).latitude) );
hm.put("lng", Double.toString(((LatLng)list.get(l)).longitude) );
path.add(hm);
}
}
routes.add(path);
}
}
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}catch (Exception e){
}
return routes;
}
/**
* Method to decode polyline points
* Courtesy : http://jeffreysambells.com/2010/05/27/decoding-polylines-from-google-maps-direction-api-with-java
* */
private List<LatLng> decodePoly(String encoded) {
List<LatLng> poly = new ArrayList<LatLng>();
int index = 0, len = encoded.length();
int lat = 0, lng = 0;
while (index < len) {
int b, shift = 0, result = 0;
do {
b = encoded.charAt(index++) - 63;
result |= (b & 0x1f) << shift;
shift += 5;
} while (b >= 0x20);
int dlat = ((result & 1) != 0 ? ~(result >> 1) : (result >> 1));
lat += dlat;
shift = 0;
result = 0;
do {
b = encoded.charAt(index++) - 63;
result |= (b & 0x1f) << shift;
shift += 5;
} while (b >= 0x20);
int dlng = ((result & 1) != 0 ? ~(result >> 1) : (result >> 1));
lng += dlng;
LatLng p = new LatLng((((double) lat / 1E5)),
(((double) lng / 1E5)));
poly.add(p);
}
return poly;
}
}
MainActivity.Java
public class MainActivity extends FragmentActivity {
GoogleMap map;
ArrayList<LatLng> markerPoints;
TextView tvDistanceDuration;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
tvDistanceDuration = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv_distance_time);
// Initializing
markerPoints = new ArrayList<LatLng>();
// Getting reference to SupportMapFragment of the activity_main
SupportMapFragment fm = (SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map);
// Getting Map for the SupportMapFragment
map = fm.getMap();
// Enable MyLocation Button in the Map
map.setMyLocationEnabled(true);
// Setting onclick event listener for the map
map.setOnMapClickListener(new GoogleMap.OnMapClickListener() {
@Override
public void onMapClick(LatLng point) {
// Already two locations
if (markerPoints.size() > 1) {
markerPoints.clear();
map.clear();
}
// Adding new item to the ArrayList
markerPoints.add(point);
// Creating MarkerOptions
MarkerOptions options = new MarkerOptions();
// Setting the position of the marker
options.position(point);
/**
* For the start location, the color of marker is GREEN and
* for the end location, the color of marker is RED.
*/
if (markerPoints.size() == 1) {
options.icon(BitmapDescriptorFactory.defaultMarker(BitmapDescriptorFactory.HUE_GREEN));
} else if (markerPoints.size() == 2) {
options.icon(BitmapDescriptorFactory.defaultMarker(BitmapDescriptorFactory.HUE_RED));
}
// Add new marker to the Google Map Android API V2
map.addMarker(options);
// Checks, whether start and end locations are captured
if (markerPoints.size() >= 2) {
LatLng origin = markerPoints.get(0);
LatLng dest = markerPoints.get(1);
// Getting URL to the Google Directions API
String url = getDirectionsUrl(origin, dest);
DownloadTask downloadTask = new DownloadTask();
// Start downloading json data from Google Directions API
downloadTask.execute(url);
}
}
});
}
private String getDirectionsUrl(LatLng origin, LatLng dest) {
// Origin of route
String str_origin = "origin=" + origin.latitude + "," + origin.longitude;
// Destination of route
String str_dest = "destination=" + dest.latitude + "," + dest.longitude;
// Sensor enabled
String sensor = "sensor=false";
// Building the parameters to the web service
String parameters = str_origin + "&" + str_dest + "&" + sensor;
// Output format
String output = "json";
// Building the url to the web service
String url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/" + output + "?" + parameters;
return url;
}
/**
* A method to download json data from url
*/
private String downloadUrl(String strUrl) throws IOException {
String data = "";
InputStream iStream = null;
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
try {
URL url = new URL(strUrl);
// Creating an http connection to communicate with url
urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
// Connecting to url
urlConnection.connect();
// Reading data from url
iStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(iStream));
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
String line = "";
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line);
}
data = sb.toString();
br.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.d("Exception while downloading url", e.toString());
} finally {
iStream.close();
urlConnection.disconnect();
}
return data;
}
// Fetches data from url passed
private class DownloadTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {
// Downloading data in non-ui thread
@Override
protected String doInBackground(String... url) {
// For storing data from web service
String data = "";
try {
// Fetching the data from web service
data = downloadUrl(url[0]);
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.d("Background Task", e.toString());
}
return data;
}
// Executes in UI thread, after the execution of
// doInBackground()
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
super.onPostExecute(result);
ParserTask parserTask = new ParserTask();
// Invokes the thread for parsing the JSON data
parserTask.execute(result);
}
}
/**
* A class to parse the Google Places in JSON format
*/
private class ParserTask extends AsyncTask<String, Integer, List<List<HashMap<String, String>>>> {
// Parsing the data in non-ui thread
@Override
protected List<List<HashMap<String, String>>> doInBackground(String... jsonData) {
JSONObject jObject;
List<List<HashMap<String, String>>> routes = null;
try {
jObject = new JSONObject(jsonData[0]);
DirectionsJSONParser parser = new DirectionsJSONParser();
// Starts parsing data
routes = parser.parse(jObject);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return routes;
}
// Executes in UI thread, after the parsing process
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(List<List<HashMap<String, String>>> result) {
ArrayList<LatLng> points = null;
PolylineOptions lineOptions = null;
MarkerOptions markerOptions = new MarkerOptions();
String distance = "";
String duration = "";
if (result.size() < 1) {
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "No Points", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
return;
}
// Traversing through all the routes
for (int i = 0; i < result.size(); i++) {
points = new ArrayList<LatLng>();
lineOptions = new PolylineOptions();
// Fetching i-th route
List<HashMap<String, String>> path = result.get(i);
// Fetching all the points in i-th route
for (int j = 0; j < path.size(); j++) {
HashMap<String, String> point = path.get(j);
if (j == 0) { // Get distance from the list
distance = (String) point.get("distance");
continue;
} else if (j == 1) { // Get duration from the list
duration = (String) point.get("duration");
continue;
}
double lat = Double.parseDouble(point.get("lat"));
double lng = Double.parseDouble(point.get("lng"));
LatLng position = new LatLng(lat, lng);
points.add(position);
}
// Adding all the points in the route to LineOptions
lineOptions.addAll(points);
lineOptions.width(2);
lineOptions.color(Color.RED);
}
tvDistanceDuration.setText("Distance:" + distance + ", Duration:" + duration);
// Drawing polyline in the Google Map for the i-th route
map.addPolyline(lineOptions);
}
}