The Places SDK for Android lets you build location-aware apps that respond
contextually to the local businesses and other places near the user's device. This means you
can build rich apps based on places that mean something to the user, to complement the
straightforward geographic-based services offered by the
Android location services.
Concepts
The following interfaces provide the primary entry points to the
Places SDK for Android:
Places
provides programmatic access to Google's database of local place and business
information, as well as the device's current place.
Autocomplete
provides pre-made widgets to return place predictions in response to user
search queries.
A place is defined as a physical space that has a name. Another way
of thinking about a place is that it's anything you can find on a map.
Examples include local businesses, points of interest, and geographic
locations. In the API, a place is represented by the
Place
interface. It includes information such as the name of the place and its
address, geographical location, place ID, phone number, place type, website
URL, and more.
API overview
Help your customers explore where they are and what's around them:
Place Autocomplete
automatically fills in the name and/or address of a place as users type.
Place Details return and
display more detailed information about a place.
Text Search returns places based
on a search text string. Text Search is part of Places SDK for Android (New).
Place Photos returns high-quality
images of a place.
Place IDs store the unique ID
for one or more places for retrieval of place information on demand.
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