Re: [android-developers] Override android.location.Geocoder on a per-app basis?

2011-08-04 Thread Mark Murphy
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Chris J. Karr wrote: > The simplest solution would be to ignore Geocoder altogether (and just > use a custom lookup method), but in the spirit of doing things the > "Android way", I was wondering if it was possible to override the > system provider Context.LOCATION_

[android-developers] Override android.location.Geocoder on a per-app basis?

2011-08-04 Thread Chris J. Karr
I have an app where I want to implement a function that takes a latitude & longitude pair and return a "place" associated with those coordinates. The android.location.Geocoder interface is exactly what I need, but the documentation includes the following note: "The Geocoder class requires a backend