I would like to know how do I check whether a given point is within certain km radius of another fixed point?
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see http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/01/android-proximity-alerts-tutorial.html – Shailendra Madda Aug 13 '14 at 08:55
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Location class has methods to calculate distance between points
First option (with distanceTo method):
// firstLocation and secondLocation are Location class instances
float distance = firstLocation.distanceTo(secondLocation); // distance in meters
if (distance < 5000) {
// distance between first and second location is less than 5km
}
Second option (with static distanceBetween method):
// distance is stored in result array at index 0
float[] result = new float[1];
Location.distanceBetween (startLat, startLng, endLat, endLng, result);
if (result[0] < 5000) {
// distance between first and second location is less than 5km
}

mata
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you can try this below function:
public static double getDistanceFromLatLngInKm(LatLng c1, LatLng c2) {
int R = 6371; // Radius of the earth in km
double lat1 = c1.latitude;
double lat2 = c2.latitude;
double lon1 = c1.longitude;
double lon2 = c2.longitude;
double dLat = deg2rad(lat2-lat1);
double dLon = deg2rad(lon2-lon1);
double a =
Math.sin(dLat/2) * Math.sin(dLat/2) +
Math.cos(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.cos(deg2rad(lat2)) *
Math.sin(dLon/2) * Math.sin(dLon/2)
;
double c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1-a));
double d = R * c; // Distance in km
return d;
}
public static double deg2rad(double deg) {
return deg * (Math.PI/180);
}
Hope it will help you..

Rushabh Patel
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Try this :-
public static Double methodName(double nLat, double nLon,
double nLat2, double nLon2) {
double nD;
Location locA = new Location("point A");
locA.setLatitude(nLat);
locA.setLongitude(nLon);
Location locB = new Location("point B");
locB.setLatitude(nLat2);
locB.setLongitude(nLon2);
nD = locA.distanceTo(locB);
return nD;
}

Rohit
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