so after a ton on investigation I am pretty sure that it was a
business decision to restrict this. There are non google alternatives
though.
Clay
On Nov 15, 12:52 pm, Clay <claytan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I have been looking into this for a couple of days, and I am pretty
> sure the intent of the android API team is to make SearchManager a
> platform level tool for searching application level content, like a
> application database, which is very cool, and I will probably use, but
> not what I want at this moment.
>
> I want to be able search a map just like the Google search apis for
> javascript:
>
> // We'll wait to the end to actually initialize the map
> // So let's build the search control
> searchControl = new google.search.SearchControl();
>
> // Initialize a LocalSearch instance
> searcher = new google.search.LocalSearch(); // create the object
> //google.search.LocalSearch.ADDRESS_LOOKUP_ENABLED
>
> searcher.setCenterPoint(map); // bind the searcher to the map
>
> // Create a SearcherOptions object to ensure we can see all
> results
> var options = new google.search.SearcherOptions(); // create the
> object
> options.setExpandMode
> (google.search.SearchControl.EXPAND_MODE_OPEN);
>
> // Add the searcher to the SearchControl
> searchControl.addSearcher(searcher , options);
>
> // And second, we need is a search complete callback!
> searchControl.setSearchCompleteCallback(searcher , function() {
> map.clearOverlays();
> var results = searcher.results; // Grab the results array
> // We loop through to get the points
> for (var i = 0; i < results.length; i++) {
> var result = results[i]; // Get the specific result
> var markerLatLng = new google.maps.LatLng(parseFloat
> (result.lat),
> parseFloat
> (result.lng));
> var marker = new google.maps.Marker(markerLatLng); // Create
> the marker
>
> // Bind information for the infoWindow aka the map marker
> popup
> marker.bindInfoWindow(result.html.cloneNode(true));
> result.marker = marker; // bind the marker to the result
> map.addOverlay(marker); // add the marker to the map
> }
>
> This *was* in previous versions of the API (1.0?) I have seen very old
> code like:
>
> // W00t! Search for Pizza.
> // Create a MapPoint from the map's coordinates
> MapPoint mapPoint = new MapPoint(mMapView.getMapCenter
> ().getLatitudeE6(),
> mMapView.getMapCenter().getLongitudeE6());
> // Create a dummy Map for use in Search
> Map map = new Map(getDispatcher(), null, 0, 0, 0,
> mapPoint,
> Zoom.getZoom(mMapView.getZoomLevel()), 0);
> // Search for Pizza near the specified coordinates
> Search search = new Search("Pizza", map, 0);
> // add the request the dispatcher
> getDispatcher().addDataRequest(search);
> // Wait for the search to complete, Should do this
> // in another thread ideally, this is just for
> illustration here.
> while (!search.isComplete()) {
> Log.i(LOG_TAG, ".");
> }
>
> // Print the details.
> Log.i(LOG_TAG, "Done - " + search.numPlacemarks());
> MapPoint point = null;
> for (int i = 0; i < search.numPlacemarks(); i++) {
> Placemark placemark = search.getPlacemark(i);
> point = placemark.getLocation();
> Log.i(LOG_TAG, " - i : " + Integer.toString(i));
> Log.i(LOG_TAG, "- Bubble : " +
> placemark.getBubbleDescriptor());
> Log.i(LOG_TAG, "- Detail : " +
> placemark.getDetailsDescriptor());
> Log.i(LOG_TAG, "- Title : " + placemark.getTitle());
> Log.i(LOG_TAG, "- Location : " + placemark.getLocation
> ().toString());
> Log.i(LOG_TAG, "- routable : " +
> placemark.routableString());
> }
>
> // Animate to the last location.
> if (point != null) {
> MapController mc = mMapView.getController();
> Point point1 = new Point(point.getLatitude(),
> point.getLongitude());
> mc.animateTo(point1);
> mc.zoomTo(12);
> Log.i("animateTo", point1.toString());
> }
>
> I have been thinking it could be possible by geocoding an address
> using the location manager:
>
> //first find the location using geocoding
> Geocoder geocoder =
> new Geocoder(getApplicationContext(),
> Locale.getDefault());
> try {
> List<Address> addrs =
>
> geocoder.getFromLocation(mMyLocationLat, mMyLocationLon, 1);
>
> } catch (IOException e) {
> Log.e(TAG, "geocoding failed");
> }
>
> and then pre populating the search with something like "pizza @94611",
> but right now when I do search the results go to a browser, I really
> want to be able to parse the results myself using an api.
>
> Does anyone know of an example like this or can give me some advice,
> the API docs on SearchManager are a little difficult because I think
> the intentions are mixed. Is this the right approach? Is it even
> possible?
>
> Clay
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