Get the distance between two geo points

Question

I want to make an app which checks the nearest place where a user is. I can easily get the location of the user and I have already a list of places with latitude and longitu

Answer 1

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Location.html

Look into distanceTo or distanceBetween. You can create a Location object from a latitude and longitude:

Location location = new Location("");
location.setLatitude(lat);
location.setLongitude(lon);

Answer 2

Location loc1 = new Location("");
loc1.setLatitude(lat1);
loc1.setLongitude(lon1);

Location loc2 = new Location("");
loc2.setLatitude(lat2);
loc2.setLongitude(lon2);

float distanceInMeters = loc1.distanceTo(loc2);

Reference: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Location.html#distanceTo(android.location.Location)

Answer 3

Just use the following method, pass it lat and long and get distance in meter:

private static double distance_in_meter(final double lat1, final double lon1, final double lat2, final double lon2) {
    double R = 6371000f; // Radius of the earth in m
    double dLat = (lat1 - lat2) * Math.PI / 180f;
    double dLon = (lon1 - lon2) * Math.PI / 180f;
    double a = Math.sin(dLat/2) * Math.sin(dLat/2) +
            Math.cos(latlong1.latitude * Math.PI / 180f) * Math.cos(latlong2.latitude * Math.PI / 180f) *
                    Math.sin(dLon/2) * Math.sin(dLon/2);
    double c = 2f * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1-a));
    double d = R * c;
    return d;
}