Given two points, return the distance between them on a 2D coordinate system. - Android Graphics

Android examples for Graphics:Path Point

Description

Given two points, return the distance between them on a 2D coordinate system.

Demo Code

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//package com.java2s;
import android.graphics.PointF;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Given two points, return the distance between them on a 2D coordinate system.
     *
     * @param point1    First point on line
     * @param point2    Second point on line
     * @return          Distance between point1 and point2
     */
    public static float getDistanceBetweenPoints(PointF point1,
            PointF point2) {
        return (float) Math.sqrt(Math.pow(point2.x - point1.x, 2)
                + Math.pow(point2.y - point1.y, 2));
    }
}

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