Place Picker Deprecated

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Zandro Zulueta picture Zandro Zulueta · Jan 30, 2019 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

I received an email today regarding the Google Place Picker.

"The Place Picker is deprecated as of January 29, 2019. This feature will be turned off on July 29, 2019, and will no longer be available after that date. You must install the compatibility library to continue using the Place Picker during the deprecation period. Once the deprecation period has ended, the Place Picker will no longer be available for use (including the version in the compatibility library)."

They just mentioned that it will no longer work eventually but they did not specify the replacement to it. So what will developers now use to enable our users to pick places?

Answer

Sucho picture Sucho · Jun 10, 2019

So I made a free version of Place Picker. It's not as feature rich but is free. It uses geocoder to fetch the address and coordinates of a place. Will be adding more features like optional Autocomplete Widget (Its not free though) in the next few days. Check it put here:

https://github.com/suchoX/PlacePicker

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