Build Location Apps on iOS with Swift: Use Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Mapbox to Code Location Aware Mobile Apps

© Jeffrey Linwood 2020

J. LinwoodBuild Location Apps on iOS with Swifthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6083-8_10

10. Using Google Places in Your iOS App

Jeffrey Linwood¹ 

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Austin, TX, USA

 

Google Places provides a rich database of locations and photos to iOS apps through the Google Places SDK. With the SDK, your mobile app can augment its location abilities with additional details and photos or even provide a places search with autocomplete.

We are going to build on the discussion in Chapter 7 about CocoaPods and using Google APIs in your mobile app. In particular, getting a Google Places API key is similar to getting an API key for the Google Directions API or the Google Maps API.

Google Places is on a pay-per-use billing model, with billing credits ...