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Reputation: 493

Android - Getting a list of nearby places

I need to be able to get a list of nearby places within my app. I want this to be inside a NavigationDrawer as well. Just like Google Now's Nearby Places card:

Google Now card

Although I want this to be wrapped inside a NavigationDrawer. Any way to do this?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2158

Answers (1)

An SO User
An SO User

Reputation: 24998

Google Places API is a web-based sevice, so you need to send a request to: 

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json
  ?location=COORDINATES_IN_LAT_LONG
  &radius=DISTANCE_IN_METERS
  &key=YOUR_API_KEY

The result you will get back will be in JSON which is fairly easy to parse using GSON: 

{
   "html_attributions" : [],
   "results" : [
      {
         "geometry" : {
            "location" : {
               "lat" : 37.79593620000001,
               "lng" : -122.40000320
            },
            "viewport" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 37.80475270,
                  "lng" : -122.38399580
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 37.78711860,
                  "lng" : -122.41601060
               }
            }
         },
         "icon" : "http://maps.gstatic.com/mapfiles/place_api/icons/geocode-71.png",
         "id" : "7498697d87cb1a28280277cb7825e0a4c21387d6",
         "name" : "Financial District",
         "reference" : "CoQBegAAAFrgJ9ZyeZrV_a9QWteNl9hrNGq-9qhPIP0M9yIL00HhKzBJNERhX95nEnAAtgBKqc2e51Yq2-OG3g-D8YZ20pcFKK7n3Pipd3Rpz7JmFedlg-gimYv3YGhOYVhblHYhhJM8y48J7tbDT4QPKsnumhsyhTf-5YktikanlFKt3NKNEhDwKmUyXRDhsYS1-rzHCZSRGhQP5VmDcuvvxvYE7e7dC-0PWYhfjw",
         "types" : [ "neighborhood", "political" ],
         "vicinity" : "San Francisco"
      },
      {
         "geometry" : {
            "location" : {
               "lat" : 37.7856560,
               "lng" : -122.4012520
            }
         },
         "icon" : "http://maps.gstatic.com/mapfiles/place_api/icons/art_gallery-71.png",
         "id" : "5e693f5ae4f1cd1512732b1568ff0e4b67ab0291",
         "name" : "San Francisco Museum of Modern Art",
         "rating" : 4.30,
         "reference" : "CpQBgQAAAO9fVOGklWz3ugJeJ0DuVibD60yFJ_z19hm5Cm7f4NYsIECaVqC2yhQ746w2vMmAJmA-jYNNwp5_ot7hsRxVmcbO1TdvBtYG3LZ6JD2vxgMXSCFK3U2McAywoOsbPwjU-9fN6jtHmvuiCXNDamIUP4IX462NsmyO06digENJcMoLES75jTTvVBjuRvNFRdIJnRIQDtf7lhNra8eTmAYy1PKKnhoU7hDZ-Y6TB8HRnHBsVDnsWnL5E0o",
         "types" : [ "art_gallery", "store", "establishment" ],
         "vicinity" : "151 Third Street, San Francisco"
      },
      {
         "geometry" : {
            "location" : {
               "lat" : 37.7791590,
               "lng" : -122.4158080
            }
         },
         "icon" : "http://maps.gstatic.com/mapfiles/place_api/icons/library-71.png",
         "id" : "b1c83827c82c9fa59ffcdad652d1e8a1b04a4ae8",
         "name" : "San Francisco Public Library",
         "rating" : 4.20,
         "reference" : "CoQBewAAAP-wCLLWVV2kys-vTPPr9LZPUkZXqrUUjG6LTRmcVARlehuh_SkvisDlH5X6WgoX6BG16e7RSS94xxhZbj0B3i7gC1KFDz_Oc88hK6YUj3w8Ix0N5M6UmKfAIXq1CYXLMrt_KAR7WsNF65MiSnj-Nqu0AMxwW-dMvRfmHOk7xGW0EhCyRZgNzYmPV08XAHZ-HBx_GhQYlLxuAU4MH8FvkdMWbQ1Xvf7WxA",
         "types" : [ "library", "establishment" ],
         "vicinity" : "100 Larkin Street, San Francisco"
      },

You can then pass it to the adapter of your navigation drawer, if you so choose. If you want to show this data in the navigation drawer even in offline mode, cache this data in a txt file and read it on starting the app. This will also have the added advantage of saving bandwidth by refreshing this data only when the user chooses so.

If you want places ranked by distance, add &rankby=distance to your request URL.

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Upvotes: 3

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