Question

I’m a novice programmer so feel free to comment on things that make no sense so that I can learn.

I’m working on a coffee shop finder android app that makes calls to the SimpleGeo API to get each place of interest. I’m having trouble thinking up a way to store the returned JSON data in a way that I can use for my purposes. I need to do 2 things with the data: first, I need a map overlay class to access it so I can draw markers for each coffee shop (which I’m okay with); second, I need to display the data in a list view.

The API call:

    /** Queries SimpleGeo with current location **/
    private void getJSONData() {
    SimpleGeoPlacesClient client = SimpleGeoPlacesClient.getInstance();
    client.getHttpClient().setToken(oauth_key, oauth_secret);
    double radius = 25;
    try {
        client.search(lat, lng, "coffee", null, radius,
                new FeatureCollectionCallback() {
                    public void onSuccess(FeatureCollection collection) {
                        try {
                            features = collection.toJSON();
                        } catch (JSONException e) {
                            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
                        }
                    }

                    public void onError(String errorMessage) {
                        System.out.println(errorMessage);
                    }
                });
    } catch (IOException e) {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    }
}

Parsing the data:

    private void parseJSONData() throws JSONException {
    for (int i = 0; i < features.length(); i++) {
        JSONObject feature = features.getJSONObject(i).getJSONObject(
                "feature");
    }
}

I’m currently trying to create java objects out of the data using GSON outlined in this tutorial. Would SQLite be appropriate for this? Any pro-tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Assuming you are working with android, you can use google map view

view,com.google.android.maps.MapView
http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-mapview.html

and ListView
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ListView.html

I dont see how SQLite fits in here , unless you plan to store the places across app restarts.
All you need to do is extract place information from JSON and do whatever you want with that data.