Jun 6, 2011

Get location of Cell ID, from opencellid.org using HttpGet().

A class OpenCellID was created to handle the http communication with opencellid.org. To simplify the job, request with "fmt=txt" is sent, such that we can simply splite the result to retrieve our latitude, longitude.

To know more about the project OpenCellID, refer to last post.

Get location of Cell ID, from opencellid.org using HttpGet()

We need the following permission in this example:
  • android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
  • android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
  • android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE
  • android.permission.INTERNET


package com.AndroidTelephonyManager;

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.telephony.TelephonyManager;
import android.telephony.gsm.GsmCellLocation;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class AndroidTelephonyManager extends Activity {

public class OpenCellID {
String mcc; //Mobile Country Code
String mnc; //mobile network code
String cellid; //Cell ID
String lac; //Location Area Code

Boolean error;
String strURLSent;
String GetOpenCellID_fullresult;

String latitude;
String longitude;

public Boolean isError(){
return error;
}

public void setMcc(String value){
mcc = value;
}

public void setMnc(String value){
mnc = value;
}

public void setCallID(int value){
cellid = String.valueOf(value);
}

public void setCallLac(int value){
lac = String.valueOf(value);
}

public String getLocation(){
return(latitude + " : " + longitude);
}

public void groupURLSent(){
strURLSent =
"http://www.opencellid.org/cell/get?mcc=" + mcc
+"&mnc=" + mnc
+"&cellid=" + cellid
+"&lac=" + lac
+"&fmt=txt";
}

public String getstrURLSent(){
return strURLSent;
}

public String getGetOpenCellID_fullresult(){
return GetOpenCellID_fullresult;
}

public void GetOpenCellID() throws Exception {
groupURLSent();
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(strURLSent);
HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
GetOpenCellID_fullresult = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
spliteResult();
}

private void spliteResult(){
if(GetOpenCellID_fullresult.equalsIgnoreCase("err")){
error = true;
}else{
error = false;
String[] tResult = GetOpenCellID_fullresult.split(",");
latitude = tResult[0];
longitude = tResult[1];
}


}
}

int myLatitude, myLongitude;
OpenCellID openCellID;


/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
TextView textGsmCellLocation = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.gsmcelllocation);
TextView textMCC = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.mcc);
TextView textMNC = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.mnc);
TextView textCID = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.cid);
TextView textLAC = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.lac);
TextView textGeo = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.geo);
TextView textRemark = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.remark);

//retrieve a reference to an instance of TelephonyManager
TelephonyManager telephonyManager = (TelephonyManager)getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
GsmCellLocation cellLocation = (GsmCellLocation)telephonyManager.getCellLocation();

String networkOperator = telephonyManager.getNetworkOperator();
String mcc = networkOperator.substring(0, 3);
String mnc = networkOperator.substring(3);
textMCC.setText("mcc: " + mcc);
textMNC.setText("mnc: " + mnc);

int cid = cellLocation.getCid();
int lac = cellLocation.getLac();
textGsmCellLocation.setText(cellLocation.toString());
textCID.setText("gsm cell id: " + String.valueOf(cid));
textLAC.setText("gsm location area code: " + String.valueOf(lac));

openCellID = new OpenCellID();

openCellID.setMcc(mcc);
openCellID.setMnc(mnc);
openCellID.setCallID(cid);
openCellID.setCallLac(lac);
try {
openCellID.GetOpenCellID();

if(!openCellID.isError()){
textGeo.setText(openCellID.getLocation());
textRemark.setText( "\n\n"
+ "URL sent: \n" + openCellID.getstrURLSent() + "\n\n"
+ "response: \n" + openCellID.GetOpenCellID_fullresult);
}else{
textGeo.setText("Error");
}
} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
textGeo.setText("Exception: " + e.toString());
}
}
}


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/hello"
/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/gsmcelllocation"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/mcc"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/mnc"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/cid"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/lac"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/geo"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/remark"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
</LinearLayout>


Related Post:
- OpenCellID
- Convert cellLocation to real location (Latitude and Longitude), from "http://www.google.com/glm/mmap"
- Start Google Maps using intent of ACTION_VIEW

11 comments:

  1. Hi
    I'm Asraf..
    I got the msg "the application has stopped unexpectedly"
    Can u pls help me

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  2. please post the apk file of this project

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  3. hi

    nice one.i got a error like null pointer exception in this line( int cid = cellLocation.getCid();).

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    1. Hello Ramachandran,

      I guess you need to add permission if it told you caused by permission problem.
      (I'm in learning this too.)

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  4. any one who knows how Geo: uri.parse works, I am using opencellid for long and lat. it works well to open throw uri.parse(view intent) geo:long + lat. But i need to get the url in right way and open in a separately browser

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    1. Thanks Andr
      that is what I do to day, but my intention is to send the Long and lat with sms(texting)to other.
      so I need to to know the secret? with Geo: in intent.The Url is probably google.com/glm/mmap but the querystring is unknown for me. When I start google maps using Intent of Action_View i got the right position, but if I take the long and lat and copy n paste it in my browser the position is not the same. I have tried different querystring that I could find ? so I need a solution how to handle it .

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  5. Hi,
    Is it possible to get LAC of the area if MCC,MNC,Lat and Long is known?

    If yes, how?

    Thanks in advance,
    tspshikari

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  6. Hi,
    I got error as
    Error: NullPointerException: API key is either null or empty string

    can u explain where is the problem

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  8. It works but doesn't display the location by giving the following error: android os NetworkOnMainThreadException

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