Get city name and postal code from Google Place API on Android

Question

I'm using Google Place API for Android with autocomplete

Everything works fine, but when I get the result as shown here, I don't have the city and postal code information.

    private ResultCallback<PlaceBuffer> mUpdatePlaceDetailsCallback
        = new ResultCallback<PlaceBuffer>() {
    @Override
    public void onResult(PlaceBuffer places) {
        if (!places.getStatus().isSuccess()) {
            // Request did not complete successfully
            Log.e(TAG, "Place query did not complete. Error: " + places.getStatus().toString());

            return;
        }
        // Get the Place object from the buffer.
        final Place place = places.get(0);

        // Format details of the place for display and show it in a TextView.
        mPlaceDetailsText.setText(formatPlaceDetails(getResources(), place.getName(),
                place.getId(), place.getAddress(), place.getPhoneNumber(),
                place.getWebsiteUri()));

        Log.i(TAG, "Place details received: " + place.getName());
    }
};

The Place class doesn't contain that information. I can get the full human readable address, the lat and long, etc.

How can I get the city and postal code from the autocomplete result?

Answer 1

You can not normally retrieve city name from the Place,
but you can easily get it in this way:
1) Get coordinates from your Place (or however you get them);
2) Use Geocoder to retrieve city by coordinates.
It can be done like this:

private Geocoder mGeocoder = new Geocoder(getActivity(), Locale.getDefault());

// ... 

 private String getCityNameByCoordinates(double lat, double lon) throws IOException {

     List<Address> addresses = mGeocoder.getFromLocation(lat, lon, 1);
     if (addresses != null && addresses.size() > 0) {
         return addresses.get(0).getLocality();
     }
     return null;
 }