Location Geocoder API

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Note: These need to be run inside an AsyncTask!

Reverse Geocoding:

Turn Address in LatLng:

// getLocationFromAddress(this, "171 Lopez Ave, Menlo Park, CA");
public LatLng getLocationFromAddress(Context context,String strAddress) {
    Geocoder coder = new Geocoder(context);
    List<Address> address;
    LatLng p1 = null;
    try {
        address = coder.getFromLocationName(strAddress, 5);
        if (address == null) { return null; }
        Address location = address.get(0);
        location.getLatitude();
        location.getLongitude();
        p1 = new LatLng(location.getLatitude(), location.getLongitude() );
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
    return p1;
}

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/27834110/313399

Note: This need to be run inside an AsyncTask!

Geocoder

Turn Lat and Lng into Address:

public String getAddressFromLatLng(float lat, float lng) {
   Geocoder geocoder;
    List<Address> addresses;
    geocoder = new Geocoder(mContext, Locale.getDefault());
    try {
        addresses = geocoder.getFromLocation(lat, lng, 1);
        String address = addresses.get(0).getAddressLine(0);
        String city = addresses.get(0).getAddressLine(1);
        String country = addresses.get(0).getAddressLine(2);
        return address + "\n" + city + ", " + country;
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
   return null;
}

Source: Displaying Address Geocoding

Note: This need to be run inside an AsyncTask!

Workarounds

You might try catching this request and retrying the request a few times, it will usually work as long as you have internet. Another approach you might find useful:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16119130/android-java-io-ioexception-service-not-available
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19059894/google-geocoder-service-is-unavaliable-coordinates-to-address
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22803755/java-io-ioexception-timed-out-waiting-for-response-from-server

In short you may want to try one of the workarounds to avoid using the geocoder SDK and instead use the geocoder API through a manual REST call instead. Hope that helps,