Android tap on map and get coordinates

Question

Hi guys I am trying to make an app that once the user taps on a map it gets the coordinates of that specific point.

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Answer 1

You will need to override onTouchEvent().

i hope following code will help u... showing using onTouchEvent() to while user lifts his finger from map...

Given the screen coordinates of the touch, you can use a Projection (from getProjection() on MapView) to convert that to latitude and longitude...

@Override
        public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event, MapView mapView) 
        {   
            GeoPoint point_touch;
            MapController map_controller=mapView.getController();
            //---when user lifts his finger---
            if (event.getAction() == event.ACTION_UP) {                
                point_touch = mapView.getProjection().fromPixels((int) event.getX(),(int) event.getY());                    
                Log.i("Cordinates","Lattitude="+point_touch.getLatitudeE6() / 1E6 
                        +" Longitude="+point_touch.getLongitudeE6() /1E6  );
                map_controller.animateTo(point_touch);
                return true;
            }    
            else
            {
                return false;
            }

         }