expo-google-places-autocomplete

Google Places Autocomplete for React Native. This library uses the native Google Places SDK for iOS and Android.

Preview

Installation

npx expo install expo-google-places-autocomplete

For bare React Native projects, you must ensure that you have installed and configured the expo package before continuing.

Configuration for iOS 🍏

This is only required for usage in bare React Native apps.

Run npx pod-install after installing the npm package.

Configuration for Android 🤖

No further steps are needed on Android

Get your api key

Create a an API key here and enable the "Places API". You must have billing enabled on the account.

Usage

import { GooglePlacesAutocomplete } from "expo-google-places-autocomplete";

// ...
const onSearchError = React.useCallback((error: PlacesError) => {
  console.log(error);
}, []);

const onPlaceSelected = React.useCallback((place: PlaceDetails) => {
  console.log(place);
}, []);

<View>
  <GooglePlacesAutocomplete
    apiKey={API_KEY}
    requestConfig={{ countries: ["US"] }}
    onPlaceSelected={onPlaceSelected}
    onSearchError={onSearchError}
  />
</View>;

Build your own

The library exposes three fucntions that you can use to build your own autocomplete component.

Start by initializing the SDK with your API key.

import PlacesAutocomplete from "expo-google-places-autocomplete";

// ...

useEffect(() => {
  PlacesAutocomplete.initPlaces(apiKey);
}, [apiKey]);

To get a list of predictions based on a users input you can attach an onChangeText handler to your TextInput and pass in your RequestConfig object. You will be returned an array of Place objects with at most 6 results.

  // ...
  const [inputValue, setInputValue] = React.useState("");
  const [results, setResults] = React.useState<Place[]>([]);

  // ...
  const onChangeText = React.useCallback(
    async (text: string) => {
      try {
        let result = await PlacesAutocomplete.findPlaces(text, requestConfig);
        setResults(result.places);
        setInputValue(text);
      } catch (e) {
        console.log(e);
      }
    },
    [requestConfig],
  );

When an item is selected from your list of results you can get the PlaceDetails with the following

const onPlaceSelected = React.useCallback(
  async (placeId: string) => {
    try {
      const details = await PlacesAutocomplete.placeDetails(placeId);
      console.log(details);
    } catch (e) {
      console.log(e);
    }
  },
  [onPlaceSelected],
);

Styling the provided component

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!