class="java">
public static String convertInputStreamToString(InputStream is) {
	StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
	if (is != null)
		try {
			InputStreamReader inputReader = new InputStreamReader(is);
			BufferedReader bufReader = new BufferedReader(inputReader);
			String line = "";
			while ((line = bufReader.readLine()) != null)
				result.append(line);
			bufReader.close();
			inputReader.close();
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	return result.toString();
}
public static boolean isEmpty(String string) {
    return string == null || string.length() == 0;
}
public static boolean isNumeric(String strNumeric) {
	if (isEmpty(strNumeric))
		return false;
	String patternStr = "^[-+]?\\d+(\\.\\d+)?$";
	if (Pattern.matches(patternStr, strNumeric))
		return true;
	else
		return false;
}
public static float getDistance(double lat1, double lon1, double lat2, double lon2) {
    int EARTH_RADIUS_KM = 6371;
	// if there's unavailable location (0,0), return 0
	if (lat1 == 0 || lon1 == 0 || lat2 == 0 || lon2 == 0)
		return 0;
	double lat1Rad = Math.toRadians(lat1);
	double lat2Rad = Math.toRadians(lat2);
	double deltaLonRad = Math.toRadians(lon2 - lon1);
	double km = Math.acos(Math.sin(lat1Rad) * Math.sin(lat2Rad) + Math.cos(lat1Rad)
			* Math.cos(lat2Rad) * Math.cos(deltaLonRad))
			* EARTH_RADIUS_KM;
	return km;
}