WEBVTT 00:00.080 --> 00:01.040 Welcome back. 00:01.200 --> 00:10.600 In the previous videos, I said to you that Google offers you a lot of APIs that you can benefit from. 00:10.720 --> 00:19.720 One of those APIs is the Google Maps platform, that geocoding API that we worked with, and the other 00:19.720 --> 00:21.240 interesting APIs. 00:21.400 --> 00:26.520 We're going to deep dive into the places API and directions API. 00:26.880 --> 00:33.440 Let's start with the places API from the console Cloud.google.com. 00:33.480 --> 00:37.440 Select the project and click places API. 00:37.480 --> 00:41.760 Or you can simply search for places API. 00:41.920 --> 00:46.720 This is the main page of the product details that for the places API. 00:47.160 --> 00:50.720 And you notice that the API is enabled. 00:50.720 --> 00:55.120 If it is not enabled, just click enable button. 00:55.320 --> 00:57.400 You can go and manage it. 00:57.400 --> 01:06.080 The Google Places API allows you to integrate location search, autocomplete and the place details into 01:06.080 --> 01:08.280 your Jetpack Compose application. 01:08.480 --> 01:13.000 This is useful for apps that need searching for places. 01:13.000 --> 01:13.880 Example. 01:14.200 --> 01:15.120 Restaurants. 01:15.160 --> 01:16.160 Landmarks. 01:16.280 --> 01:22.680 Autocomplete suggestions like Google Maps search bar and fetching place details. 01:22.720 --> 01:25.800 Name, address, photos and ratings. 01:25.800 --> 01:33.240 So if you are working on a map that requires searching for places, autocomplete suggestions, or even 01:33.240 --> 01:42.000 fetching place details that ratings, photos, address and name, just go and implement the Google Places 01:42.040 --> 01:44.120 API in your application. 01:44.320 --> 01:50.240 Here you can search for places you notice that the places API is enabled. 01:50.240 --> 01:52.440 You can click on for disable it. 01:52.440 --> 01:57.000 You can enable other APIs and search for other APIs. 01:57.120 --> 02:04.720 But till now we are working with geolocation and geocoding application and API and the places API. 02:04.960 --> 02:07.240 Click on keys to get the keys. 02:07.240 --> 02:18.790 And I I said to you that the API keys are shared across the applications and the Google Map APIs. 02:19.310 --> 02:24.550 So if you click on show key, you can go to your manifest. 02:24.550 --> 02:31.190 And notice that it's similar to what we've done before and what we, uh, created before. 02:31.310 --> 02:31.670 Okay. 02:31.710 --> 02:39.110 So the same key is shared across the Google Maps platform geocoding and places API. 02:39.310 --> 02:41.150 This is the first step. 02:41.430 --> 02:50.070 The second step is to implement the places API into your build.gradle file. 02:50.110 --> 02:59.070 Open Build.gradle file and here Make places API annotation implementation. 02:59.230 --> 03:07.190 We need to use Google Android Libraries places API and implement a library. 03:07.390 --> 03:08.430 You can change it to 03:12.390 --> 03:13.750 Point one. 03:14.070 --> 03:15.110 This is good. 03:15.150 --> 03:16.630 This is the latest version. 03:16.630 --> 03:18.590 Always use the latest version. 03:18.670 --> 03:20.110 Click sync now. 03:20.390 --> 03:28.470 The third step is to check that the metadata of the Android API key is implemented in the manifest. 03:28.470 --> 03:31.750 So open the manifest check for the metadata. 03:32.070 --> 03:40.550 The name comes at Google Android dot API key and you set it the value of the API key. 03:40.750 --> 03:46.390 The fourth step is the initialization of place autocomplete. 03:46.430 --> 03:55.310 Okay, so inside your package, create a new Kotlin class named as my application. 03:55.430 --> 04:01.710 This application class extends from application Alt Plus. 04:01.710 --> 04:09.150 Enter to import this class and we need to override the Oncreate function here. 04:09.150 --> 04:18.820 Initialize the places API places dot, initialize and pass the application In context, the first parameter 04:18.820 --> 04:22.460 and the second parameter is the API key here. 04:22.660 --> 04:30.100 Go to the androidmanifest, copy it or you can directly extract it from the show key. 04:30.140 --> 04:31.820 From here paste it. 04:31.820 --> 04:34.940 And this is the fourth step. 04:35.060 --> 04:38.580 We need to, uh assign it inside the manifest. 04:38.580 --> 04:49.020 So here inside the activity or inside the application scoop and tag create name and set it to my app. 04:49.020 --> 04:59.980 Why we create this application class in order to initialize the places API and the places class whenever 04:59.980 --> 05:02.820 the app first start and run. 05:02.860 --> 05:03.380 Okay. 05:03.420 --> 05:12.020 So whenever you run the application places API will be initialized and the places class will create 05:12.020 --> 05:14.620 it and create an instance from it. 05:14.660 --> 05:15.180 Okay. 05:15.420 --> 05:22.100 This is a very important step in order to make everything work fine and smooth.