Calculate the area covered by a polygon in a google map in an Android App

Question

I\'ve got a series of Location / GeoPoint objects that form a polygon in my Android app. I wonder if there\'s any way to calculate the area covered

Answer 1

A method doing this is posted in following answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/16210785/891479

This is based on following formula:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PolygonArea.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon

Principle of plolygon area calculation using this formula:

http://maruzar.blogspot.com/2011/12/irregular-and-regular-polygon-area-by.html