GPlaceAPI is an open-source iOS Objective-C library for fetching Google Places API using simple blocks based API callbacks.

Its Main purpose it to use Google Places API requests with ease in a less lines of code.

This includes following:

• Place Search
  • Nearby Search (search places in a specified area)
  • Text Search (search places based on a search string)
• Place Details (get more comprehensive information about a place)
• Place Autocomplete (Get place predictions based on the search text)
• Query Autocomplete(Get on-the-fly geographic query predictions)

How To Use

Manual (or using git submodule)

1. Implement AFNetworking 2.0
   • GPlaceAPI uses AFNetworking 2.0 so, you need to add AFNetworking in your project
2. Download source files from this repository
3. Add all files from GPlaceAPI folder to your project's target

Usage

You can take a look at the detailed example usage project GPlaceAPIExample/GPlaceAPIExample.xcodeproj.

1. Import GPlaceAPI files in your implementation file

#import "GPHeader.h"

2. Setup Google Place API key

In order to communicate with a Google Places API, you must first generate your own API key. Please take a look at Introduction - Google Places API.

You must provide API key to a GPlaceAPI before making any request using it.

//Open "AppDelegate.h" and set your API_KEY

[[GPlaceAPISetup sharedInstance] setApi_Key:@"SET_API_KEY"];

3. Making a request & get Resonse

 CLLocationCoordinate2D location = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(51.501103,-0.124565);
 GPPlaceSearchRequest *request =[[GPPlaceSearchRequest alloc] initWithLocationCoordinate:location];
 request.radius = 5000;
 [request doFetchPlaces:^(GPPlaceSearchResponse *response, NSError *error) {
        if(!error){
            if(response.status ==  GPRequestStatusOK) {
                // Access place results by below model
                GPResult *result =response.results[0];
                NSLog(@"%@",result.name);
            }
       } 
    }];

Please check Google Places API documentation for request and resonse. you can search all request parameters and get response of all objects mentioned in Google Places API documentation.

Compatibility

• iOS 7.0+

TODOs

• Add Example project on how to use this library.
• Write test cases for this library.

Contact

GPlaceAPI is developed by Darshan Patel. Please email to let me know you how you are using this library and anything related to this library.

Contributing and notes

• If you like this library, please consider giving it a Github star.

Pull requests are very welcome expecting you follow few rules:

• Document your changes in a code comments and Git commit message
• Please do make sure your changes don't trouble with any existing code

Version history

1.0 Initial Pre-release

• Added first version.

1.0.1 Pre-release

• Simplified way of adding API_Key
• Bug fix for price level enum

2.0 Public - release

• Added photo_url in GPPhoto class

2.0.2 Public - release

• Remove warning of NSInteger conversion

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Darshan Patel

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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