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Service not available while calling geoCoder.getFromLocation()

Asked 2013-02-27T11:08:04.850
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I know sometimes google back-end service might not be available.

Hence a solution might be to loop until i get the data.

private class getLocationDetails extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... params) {

        Log.d("looping", "" + count + "");
        count++;
        double lat = Double.parseDouble(params[0]);
        double lng = Double.parseDouble(params[1]);
        List<Address> addresses = null;
        try {

            Geocoder gCoder = new Geocoder(ImageAndLocationActivity.this,
                    Locale.getDefault());
            addresses = gCoder.getFromLocation(lat, lng, 1);
            Address addr = addresses.get(0);
            user_country = addr.getCountryName();
            user_city = addr.getLocality();
            user_district = addr.getSubAdminArea();

            if (user_city == null) {

                user_city = user_district;
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {

            Log.e("Exception in getLocationDetails - ", e.getMessage());
            return null;
        }

        return "";
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String result) {

        if (result != null) {

            Log.d("user_city = ", "" + user_city);
        } else {

            new getLocationDetails().execute(CurrentLat + "", CurrentLng
                    + "");
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {

    }

    @Override
    protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {

    }
}

But i am not able to get the location at all:

LogCat:

02-27 16:29:49.568: D/looping(10966): 110355
02-27 16:29:49.568: E/Exception in getLocationDetails -(10966): Service not Available
02-27 16:29:49.573: D/looping(10966): 110356
02-27 16:29:49.573: E/Exception in getLocationDetails -(10966): Service not Available
02-27 16:29:49.573: D/looping(10966): 110357
02-27
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Workaround using direct access to google maps:

    public static LatLng getLocationFromString(String address)
        throws JSONException {

    HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(
            "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address="
                    + URLEncoder.encode(address, "UTF-8") + "&ka&sensor=false");
    HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpResponse response;
    StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();

    try {
        response = client.execute(httpGet);
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        InputStream stream = entity.getContent();
        int b;
        while ((b = stream.read()) != -1) {
            stringBuilder.append((char) b);
        }
    } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
    } catch (IOException e) {
    }

    JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(stringBuilder.toString());

    double lng = ((JSONArray) jsonObject.get("results")).getJSONObject(0)
            .getJSONObject("geometry").getJSONObject("location")
            .getDouble("lng");

    double lat = ((JSONArray) jsonObject.get("results")).getJSONObject(0)
            .getJSONObject("geometry").getJSONObject("location")
            .getDouble("lat");

    return new LatLng(lat, lng);
}

    public static List<Address> getStringFromLocation(double lat, double lng)
        throws ClientProtocolException, IOException, JSONException {

    String address = String
            .format(Locale.ENGLISH,                                 "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=%1$f,%2$f&sensor=true&language="
                            + Locale.getDefault().getCountry(), lat, lng);
    HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(address);
    HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpResponse response;
    StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();

    List<Address> retList = null;

    response = client.execute(httpGet);
    HttpEntity entity = response.getEnti
answered 2013-07-15T11:48:53.780

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