Making a Location object in Android with latitude and longitude values

Question

I have a program in which latitude and longitude values of a location are stored in a database, which I download.

I want to get the distance between these coordinat

Answer 1

Assuming that you already have a location object with you current location.

Location targetLocation = new Location("");//provider name is unnecessary
targetLocation.setLatitude(0.0d);//your coords of course
targetLocation.setLongitude(0.0d);

float distanceInMeters =  targetLocation.distanceTo(myLocation);

Answer 2

You may create locations using their constructor, then set the latutude and longitude values.

final Location location = new Location("yourprovidername");
location.setLatitude(1.2345d);
location.setLongitude(1.2345d);

Answer 3

I am answering this again, because lot of people like me do not know what "providername" actually is. Below code answers the question:

Location location = new Location(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);
location.setLatitude(23.5678);
location.setLongitude(34.456);

Here I am using LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER as the provider name.