Obtaining State abbreviation from getAdminArea();

Question

I've attempted two different ways in trying to obtain the city name as well as the state abbreviation only from the Address class, with no luck. The first is returning the State like so "CA 92055" with the zip code, and the second attempt returns the full State name. Any quick ways around this?

First attempt which the state ends up returning "CA 92055" (Zip followed after the abbrev)

Geocoder geoCoder = new Geocoder(getActivity(), Locale.getDefault());
                List<Address> addresses;
                try {
                    addresses = geoCoder.getFromLocation(mLatitude, mLongitude, 10);
                     int i=1;
                     for(Address addObj:addresses)
                     {
                         // Looping once
                         if(i==1)
                         {

                             String add_line1_extract;

                             add_line1_extract=addObj.getAddressLine(1);

                             String string = add_line1_extract;
                             String[] parts = string.split(",");

                             //Setting city
                             mCity = parts[0]; 

                             //setting state
                             mState = parts[1]; 

                             // Final Output
                             String cityAndState = mCity + ", " + mState;
                             i++;

                         }
                     }
                } catch (IOException e1) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e1.printStackTrace();
                }

Second attempt, getting closer no zip now...but... (Returns the full state name):

Geocoder geoCoder = new Geocoder(getActivity(), Locale.getDefault());
                List<Address> addresses;
                try {
                    addresses = geoCoder.getFromLocation(mLatitude, mLongitude, 10);
                     int i=1;
                     for(Address addObj:addresses)
                     {
                         // Looping once
                         if(i==1)
                         {

                             //Setting city
                             mCity = addObj.getSubLocality();                            
                             //setting state
                             mState = addObj.getAdminArea(); 

                             i++;
                         }
                     }
                } catch (IOException e1) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e1.printStackTrace();
                }

Answer 1

I worked around it by finding the last 2 letters word in the full address (assuming an US address provided by google maps android geocoder). It works for all cases I have found:

private String getUSStateCode(Address USAddress){
    String fullAddress = "";
    for(int j = 0; j <= USAddress.getMaxAddressLineIndex(); j++)
        if (USAddress.getAddressLine(j) != null)
            fullAddress = fullAddress + " " + USAddress.getAddressLine(j);

    String stateCode = null;
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(" [A-Z]{2} ");
    String helper = fullAddress.toUpperCase().substring(0, fullAddress.toUpperCase().indexOf("USA"));
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(helper);
    while (matcher.find())
        stateCode = matcher.group().trim();

    return stateCode;
}