An android tool built with Kotlin language. Pick any country and the country gets highlighted. A toast shows with the Clicked country's Alpha-2 code.
- Reverse geocoding the clicked position to know the clicked country.
- Highlighting the country.
I used this great repo for reverse geocoding offline, It is the best that I found. Google maps reverse geocoding often takes time and doesn't work offline.
- In order to Highlight the country, We need the coordinates of the Country. Can be fround here.
- The downloaded file has all the coordinates of the countries in the same geojson file. which in our case is not what we exactly need. So after downloading the file I sepereted each country into its own geojson file which is named after its Alpha-2 code but in lowercase. Coordinates of the countries seperted and matched to its Alpha-2 code but in lowercase.
- Google maps Geojson utility takes the coordinates and draws over the map. Google maps Geojson utility.
- Dominican republic's Alpha-2 code is 'do', Which isn't permitted to be stored as file. So the file's name changed to 'doo'
- Another version which uses nomination api.
- The results are not always accurate, Since the coordinates downloaded used are mid res.