How do I show a marker in Maps launched by geo URI Intent?

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I have a application where I want to show different locations (one at the time, picked by user input) by launching Google Maps with their specific geo coordinates.

I'm currently using this (with real lat. and long. values of course):

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("geo:<lat>,<long>?z=17"));
startActivity(intent);

It's quite exactly what I want, except that it doesn't show any indicator or marker for the specified point. It only centers at it's location.

Is there some way to get the marker or something else included without using a MapView?

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7 Answers

The accepted answer is correct, except when your label has an ampersand (&) in it.

Looking at A Uniform Resource Identifier for Geographic Locations ('geo' URI):

Section 5.1 states:

if the final URI is to include a 'query' component, add the component delimiter "?" to the end of the result, followed by the encoded query string.

Unfortunately for us, doing this will also escape the '=' which is not what we want.

We should do this:

String label = "Cinnamon & Toast";
String uriBegin = "geo:12,34";
String query = "12,34(" + label + ")";
String encodedQuery = Uri.encode(query);
String uriString = uriBegin + "?q=" + encodedQuery;
Uri uri = Uri.parse(uriString);
Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);
startActivity(intent);
user_8670990

Try appending (LocationMarkerName) to the geo: uri. For example, "geo:,?z=17(LocationMarkerName)"

In Google Maps on Android searching for 23.0980,30.6797 (NamedMarker), it seems to centre the map and position a marker with name NamedMarker at that position.

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