Can Geocoder Getfromlocation Method Cause A Networkonmainthreadexception To Be Thrown?

I have an app which was tested thoroughly and working fine on Android Gingerbread (and older Android versions). I've noticed from users' reported crash errors that phones running l

Solution 1:

Seems like these Geocoder methods and any networking or i/o calls are going to throw up a NetworkOnMainThreadException. So, if in doubt, stick it in a separate thread!

Here's an example of how to call the GeoCoder.getFromLocation() method from another thread:

newAsyncTask<GeoPoint, Void, Address>()
{
  @Overrideprotected Address doInBackground(GeoPoint... geoPoints)
  {
    try
    {
      GeocodergeoCoder=newGeocoder(context);
      doublelatitude= geoPoints[0].getLatitudeE6() / 1E6;
      doublelongitude= geoPoints[0].getLongitudeE6() / 1E6;
      List<Address> addresses = geoCoder.getFromLocation(latitude, longitude, 1);
      if (addresses.size() > 0)
        return addresses.get(0);
    }
    catch (IOException ex)
    {
      // log exception or do whatever you want to do with it!
    }
    returnnull;
  }

  @OverrideprotectedvoidonPostExecute(Address address)
  {
    // do whatever you want/need to do with the address found// remember to check first that it's not null
  }
}.execute(myGeoPoint);