Android - Pinning location to map when clicking a listview item?

Question

I have a listview that contains a couple of taxi companies. When a user clicks on the taxi name, it shows an alertdialog box asking them to either book, show map or cancel. What im trying to achieve is when the user clicks show map, it grabs the location from a string array already set, and then points to it on the map. I dont want it to find my current location as of yet. is this possible to do? i already have a mapview setup which at present just points to a random location set from the tutorial.

This is my code for both:

    ListTaxi Class : 

             class Taxi {
    private String taxiName;
    private String taxiAddress;
    private String taxiDist;

    public String getName() {
        return taxiName;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        taxiName = name;
    }

    public String getAddress() {
        return taxiAddress;
    }

    public void setAddress(String address) {
        taxiAddress = address;
    }
    public String getDist() {
        return taxiDist;
    }
    public void setDist(String dist){
        taxiDist = dist;
    }
    public Taxi(String name, String address, String dist) {
        taxiName = name;
        taxiAddress = address;
        taxiDist = dist;
    }
}

public class TaxiAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Taxi> {
    private ArrayList<Taxi> items;
    private TaxiViewHolder taxiHolder;

    private class TaxiViewHolder {
        TextView name;
        TextView address; 
        TextView dist;
    }

    public TaxiAdapter(Context context, int tvResId, ArrayList<Taxi> items) {
        super(context, tvResId, items);
        this.items = items;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int pos, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        View v = convertView;
        if (v == null) {
            LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater)getSystemService(LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
            v = vi.inflate(R.layout.taxi_list_item, null);
            taxiHolder = new TaxiViewHolder();
            taxiHolder.name = (TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.taxi_name);
            taxiHolder.address = (TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.taxi_address);
            taxiHolder.dist = (TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.taxi_dist);
            v.setTag(taxiHolder);
        } else taxiHolder = (TaxiViewHolder)v.getTag(); 

        Taxi taxi = items.get(pos);

        if (taxi != null) {
            taxiHolder.name.setText(taxi.getName());
            taxiHolder.address.setText(taxi.getAddress());
            taxiHolder.dist.setText(taxi.getDist());
        }

        return v;
    }
}

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.listtaxi);

    final String[] taxiNames = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.taxi_name_array);
    final String[] taxiAddresses = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.taxi_address_array);
    final String[] taxiDist = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.taxi_array_dist);
    ArrayList<Taxi> taxiList = new ArrayList<Taxi>();

    for (int i = 0; i < taxiNames.length; i++) {
        taxiList.add(new Taxi(taxiNames[i], taxiAddresses[i], taxiDist[i]));

    }


    setListAdapter(new TaxiAdapter(this, R.layout.taxi_list_item, taxiList));  

    final ListView lv = getListView();
    lv.setTextFilterEnabled(true);

        lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> a, View v, final int position, long id)
        {       

            final int selectedPosition = position;
            AlertDialog.Builder adb=new AlertDialog.Builder(ListTaxi.this); 
             adb.setTitle("Taxi Booking");
             adb.setMessage("You Have Selected: "+taxiNames[selectedPosition]); 
             adb.setPositiveButton("Book", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                 public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                     Intent intent = new Intent(ListTaxi.this, Booking.class);
                     intent.putExtra("booking",  taxiNames[selectedPosition]);
                     intent.putExtra("address",  taxiAddresses[selectedPosition]);
                     intent.putExtra("distance", taxiDist[selectedPosition]);
                     startActivity(intent);
                 }
             });
             adb.setNeutralButton("Show Map", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                 public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                     Intent intent = new Intent(ListTaxi.this, Map.class);
                     startActivity(intent);
                 }
             });

             adb.setNegativeButton("Cancel", null); 
             adb.show();
         }
     });     
}

}

and my map class is : /** * */ package com.taxime;

    public class Map extends MapActivity{
LinearLayout linearLayout;
MapView mapView;
List<Overlay> mapOverlays;
Drawable drawable;
ItemizedOverlay itemizedOverlay;


public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.mapviews);

        mapView = (MapView) findViewById(R.id.mapView);
        mapView.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);



        mapOverlays = mapView.getOverlays();
        drawable = this.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.androidmarker);
        itemizedOverlay = new ItemizedOverlay(drawable);

        Intent intent = getIntent();
        if (intent != null) {
            if (Intent.ACTION_VIEW.equals(intent.getAction())) {
                if (intent.getData() != null) {
                    int selectedPosition = Integer.parseInt(intent.getData().getHost());
                    GeoPoint point = new GeoPoint(selectedPosition, selectedPosition);

                    OverlayItem overlayitem = new OverlayItem(point, "", "");
                    itemizedOverlay.addOverlay(overlayitem);
                    mapOverlays.add(itemizedOverlay);

                    //...
                }
            }
        }

Also my strings come from :

    <string-array name="taxi_name_array">
    <item>Barrys Taxi</item>
    <item>Boom Taxi</item>

</string-array>

<string-array name="taxi_address_array">
<item>24 test address, Uxbridge, UB8 2JY</item>
<item>14 test 2 address, Uxbridge, UB91JD</item>
</string-array>
<string-array name = "taxi_array_dist">
<item>0.4 miles</item>
<item>0.8 miles</item>
</string-array>
<string-array name ="location">
<item>(19240000,-99120000)</item>
</string-array>

If anyone has any ideas that would be awesome.

Thanks again everyone

Answer 1

What you can do is use the data field of the intent to pass the position of the taxi item that was clicked to the map activity. To do this, inside the onClick handler for the "Map" button, you use the Intent constructor that takes four arguments:

adb.setNeutralButton("Show Map", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("taxi:" + selectedPosition), ListTaxi.this, Map.class);
        startActivity(intent);
    }
});

Then, inside the map activity, you call the getIntent method to retrieve the Intent that started it. Calling getData on the intent retrieves the data field.

Putting it all together, you will have something like the following in the onCreate override of the map activity:

Intent intent = getIntent();
if (intent != null) {
    if (Intent.ACTION_VIEW.equals(intent.getAction())) {
        if (intent.getData() != null) {
            int selectedPosition = Integer.parseInt(intent.getData().getHost());
            String[] taxiLocations = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.location);
            String location = taxiLocations[selectedPosition];
            //...
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

You mean you have an address and need the lat/lon to set the map to? Something like this perhaps:

    Geocoder gc = new Geocoder(this.getApplicationContext()) ;
    List<Address> addresses = null ;

    try {
       addresses = gc.getFromLocationName("123 Main St, Peoria IL 61601", 10) ;
    } catch (IOException e) {
       // TODO Auto-generated catch block
       e.printStackTrace();
    }

    Address a = addresses.get(0) ;
    double lat = a.getLatitude() ;
    double lon = a.getLongitude() ;

    MapController mc = mapView.getController();

    p = new GeoPoint(
        (int) (lat * 1E6), 
        (int) (lon * 1E6));

    mc.animateTo(p);
    mc.setZoom(18);
    mapView.invalidate();