Obtaining State abbreviation from getAdminArea();

Question

I\'ve attempted two different ways in trying to obtain the city name as well as the state abbreviation only from the Address class, with no luck. The first is returning the

Answer 1

I don't believe you can get a state abbreviation directly from getAdminArea() despite what the documentation says. However, when dealing with US and Canada, you can set up a hashmap that will map out the state/provinces to the abbreviations on reference.

Use something like this:

Map states = new HashMap();
states.put("Alabama","AL");
states.put("Alaska","AK");
states.put("Alberta","AB");
states.put("American Samoa","AS");
states.put("Arizona","AZ");
states.put("Arkansas","AR");
states.put("Armed Forces (AE)","AE");
states.put("Armed Forces Americas","AA");
states.put("Armed Forces Pacific","AP");
states.put("British Columbia","BC");
states.put("California","CA");
states.put("Colorado","CO");
states.put("Connecticut","CT");
states.put("Delaware","DE");
states.put("District Of Columbia","DC");
states.put("Florida","FL");
states.put("Georgia","GA");
states.put("Guam","GU");
states.put("Hawaii","HI");
states.put("Idaho","ID");
states.put("Illinois","IL");
states.put("Indiana","IN");
states.put("Iowa","IA");
states.put("Kansas","KS");
states.put("Kentucky","KY");
states.put("Louisiana","LA");
states.put("Maine","ME");
states.put("Manitoba","MB");
states.put("Maryland","MD");
states.put("Massachusetts","MA");
states.put("Michigan","MI");
states.put("Minnesota","MN");
states.put("Mississippi","MS");
states.put("Missouri","MO");
states.put("Montana","MT");
states.put("Nebraska","NE");
states.put("Nevada","NV");
states.put("New Brunswick","NB");
states.put("New Hampshire","NH");
states.put("New Jersey","NJ");
states.put("New Mexico","NM");
states.put("New York","NY");
states.put("Newfoundland","NF");
states.put("North Carolina","NC");
states.put("North Dakota","ND");
states.put("Northwest Territories","NT");
states.put("Nova Scotia","NS");
states.put("Nunavut","NU");
states.put("Ohio","OH");
states.put("Oklahoma","OK");
states.put("Ontario","ON");
states.put("Oregon","OR");
states.put("Pennsylvania","PA");
states.put("Prince Edward Island","PE");
states.put("Puerto Rico","PR");
states.put("Quebec","PQ");
states.put("Rhode Island","RI");
states.put("Saskatchewan","SK");
states.put("South Carolina","SC");
states.put("South Dakota","SD");
states.put("Tennessee","TN");
states.put("Texas","TX");
states.put("Utah","UT");
states.put("Vermont","VT");
states.put("Virgin Islands","VI");
states.put("Virginia","VA");
states.put("Washington","WA");
states.put("West Virginia","WV");
states.put("Wisconsin","WI");
states.put("Wyoming","WY");
states.put("Yukon Territory","YT");