Android Geocoder such ad google maps

Question

With android Geocoder I can find a shop such as Google Maps or I can only search street, monuments, airport, etc ?? I want to search shopping center with name...

Be more constructive with you question, share what you have done, or if you have not done anything at all then share what you have in mind to do. — Nikola Despotoski, Jul 23 '11 at 19:33
I want to create a activty where I can write "shopping center" and it search on the mapview with geocoder.getFromLocation all shoopping center into my zone. But, if I put "shopping center" into search box the address list is empty this is the code list = geocoder.getFromLocation(latitudine, longitudine, 1);address = list.get(0); — Mimmo, Jul 23 '11 at 19:48

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '11 at 19:54

Search on the internet for examples for GeoCoding.

But this is what I suggest:

You can make a use of Google Places API, which allows you to search location within some radius by specifying the type which is what you are looking.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/#PlaceSearchRequests

All you have to do is to parse the output of the URL as it is specified, using JSON (parse the latitude and longitude and the name of the building) or XML. and show the overlays on the map.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/supported_types.html

Here is the list of types you can search for.

Android Geocoder such ad google maps

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