I don't know about getting a list of cities, but
android.location.Geocoder#getFromLocationName will give you an address
with latitude and longitude for strings like "Boston, MA".

On Sep 23, 2:54 pm, bevis <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have an app in which I want to be able to select a location from a
> list of cities, and find out the latitude / longitude for that city.
>
> Now surely I don't need to store all that data in the app myself?
> There must be an "intent" or similar available already to get that
> info?  Certainly the "clock" & "weather" apps (on my htc hero) already
> have a list of cities - can I somehow access that?
>
> bevis
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