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Question

I'm new to android programming and I want to ask how to get started with google places API. I've already searched so much on https://developers.google.com/places/training/basic-place-search and I'm not able to get a clear and organised result. Please help.

Answer 1

To use the Places API from a Java/Android application, you'll need to do the following:

1. Get a Places API key from Google.
2. Make HTTP requests to the API, using something like Apache's HttpClient class that are included in the Android SDK. JSON-formatted data will be easier to work with than XML.
3. Take the response string, parse it using the JSONObject class, and then drill down into these JSONObject and JSONArray objects to get at the data that you want.

A Google search for "google places api android" turns up a handful of tutorials, such as this one: http://karnshah8890.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-places-api-tutorial.html

You may also be interested in a library like this third-party offering on GitHub , which wraps the HTTP API calls into a more friendly object-oriented interface.