Hi,

I am reading the example "Where Am I?" and I copied/pasted most of the code into my own app. When I ran it on the emulator, it worked perfectly while I got

java.io.IOException: Unable to parse response from server

when running it on my Nexus One phone.

The only difference between the example on the book and mine is I am using a second activity as a Dialog on top of the Map view. When the user clicks a button on the map view, the dialog pops up and the reverse geocode starts running. I tried to do the reverse geocode both in the main UI and as an AsyncTask but the results are the same: no error on emulator and always got IOExceptions on the device.

My next attempt would be to use a Service to do the reverse geocode to see if it goes through. Any lead would be appreciated!

Some updates:
I just ran the example from the book (Chapter 8 Where Am I 5) on both the emulator and my phone:
1. Emulator: Throws out NullPointerException/ViewRoot.draw(boolean) line 1374
2. Nexus One: Runs ok but gets the same IOException error as from my own app.

Thanks!

smallbug

Hi,

Just to report back. Doing the reverse geocode lookup in a background thread seems to solve the timeout issue!

Have a good one!