android - How to Launch Google Map Intent with My Current Location

Question

Im a newbie here in android programming. Here is my simple code just to launch the intent with the given coordinates. The problem is, how to get my current location and use it to show my current location whenever the google map intent starts.

public void viewroute (View view)
{
    if  (view.getId()==R.id.ViewRoute)
      {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
                intent.setData(Uri.parse("geo:9.8500,124.1435"));
        startActivity(intent);
      }
}

Answer 1

you have to try like this

String uri = String.format(Locale.ENGLISH, "geo:%f,%f", latitude, longitude);
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(uri));
context.startActivity(intent);

for more information visit here : https://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-common.html#Maps

if you need with direction follow this

Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW, 
    Uri.parse("http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=20.344,34.34&daddr=20.5666,45.345"));
startActivity(intent);

Hope it will help you :)