Geocoding IOException trying to run a search for nearest hospitals

I am trying to incorporate and hospital search in my app. It is supposed to give the closest 5 hospitals based upon your location.

I am getting an IOException with List geocodeResults= coder.getFromLocationName(strLoc开发者_JS百科ation, 5); in Eclipse with coder.getFromLocationName(strLocation, 5); underlined being the issue.

I have also set the permissions for location coarse and fine as well as internet and still I am getting this error.

I would also like to take these 5 results and list them with the hospital name, address and miles away.

I am still new at coding for the android. I have come across a lot of great and useful help by searching this site, so here is where I am asking.

Either this or I want my app to send the string "hospital" to google maps and let google maps app display the results. I don't care which.

Thanx in advance for all the help

To be honest I do not completely understand the code I listed above, I understand some but not all. I do know it is a necessity to help me accomplish my goal.

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If your'e using Geocoder in the Emulator you will have some IO Exceptions. Actually Geocoder is not the most reliable service and frequently issues a "Service Unavailable" IO Exception. There have been some of us that have looped at the Geocoder call until it comes back clean and others who have tried other measures.

I think the emulator in 2.3 and above has a bug item on this and in 2.2 below it works rather sporadically.

This bit of code will output the actual exception to a toast message and will logcat the exception as well.

        String strAddress = "your address here/or location";

        try{
         List<Address> loc = geocoder.getFromLocationName(strAddress, 5);
        }
        catch(IOException e) {
         Log.e("IOException", e.getMessage());

         //Toaster on high-----------------//
     Context context = getApplicationContext();
     CharSequence text = "IOException:  " + e.getMessage();
     int dur = Toast.LENGTH_LONG;
            Toast.makeText(context, text, dur).show();