react-native-google-places-autocomplete

Customizable Google Places autocomplete component for iOS and Android React-Native apps

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Installation

1. npm install react-native-google-places-autocomplete --save
2. Get your Google Places API keys and enable "Google Places API Web Service" (NOT Android or iOS) in the console.
3. Enable "Google Maps Geocoding API" if you want to use GoogleReverseGeocoding for Current Location

Example

import React from 'react';
import { View, Image } from 'react-native';
import { GooglePlacesAutocomplete } from 'react-native-google-places-autocomplete';

const homePlace = { description: 'Home', geometry: { location: { lat: 48.8152937, lng: 2.4597668 } }};
const workPlace = { description: 'Work', geometry: { location: { lat: 48.8496818, lng: 2.2940881 } }};

const GooglePlacesInput = () => {
  return (
    <GooglePlacesAutocomplete
      placeholder='Search'
      minLength={2} // minimum length of text to search
      autoFocus={false}
      returnKeyType={'search'} // Can be left out for default return key https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/textinput.html#returnkeytype
      listViewDisplayed='auto'    // true/false/undefined
      fetchDetails={true}
      renderDescription={row => row.description} // custom description render
      onPress={(data, details = null) => { // 'details' is provided when fetchDetails = true
        console.log(data, details);
      }}
      
      getDefaultValue={() => ''}
      
      query={{
        // available options: https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/autocomplete
        key: 'YOUR API KEY',
        language: 'en', // language of the results
        types: '(cities)' // default: 'geocode'
      }}
      
      styles={{
        textInputContainer: {
          width: '100%'
        },
        description: {
          fontWeight: 'bold'
        },
        predefinedPlacesDescription: {
          color: '#1faadb'
        }
      }}
      
      currentLocation={true} // Will add a 'Current location' button at the top of the predefined places list
      currentLocationLabel="Current location"
      nearbyPlacesAPI='GooglePlacesSearch' // Which API to use: GoogleReverseGeocoding or GooglePlacesSearch
      GoogleReverseGeocodingQuery={{
        // available options for GoogleReverseGeocoding API : https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/intro
      }}
      GooglePlacesSearchQuery={{
        // available options for GooglePlacesSearch API : https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/search
        rankby: 'distance',
        types: 'food'
      }}

      filterReverseGeocodingByTypes={['locality', 'administrative_area_level_3']} // filter the reverse geocoding results by types - ['locality', 'administrative_area_level_3'] if you want to display only cities
      predefinedPlaces={[homePlace, workPlace]}

      debounce={200} // debounce the requests in ms. Set to 0 to remove debounce. By default 0ms.
      renderLeftButton={()  => <Image source={require('path/custom/left-icon')} />}
      renderRightButton={() => <Text>Custom text after the input</Text>}
    />
  );
}

Styling

GooglePlacesAutocomplete can be easily customized to meet styles of your app. Pass styles props to GooglePlacesAutocomplete with style object for different elements (keys for style object are listed below)

key	type
container	object (View)
description	object (Text style)
textInputContainer	object (View style)
textInput	object (style)
loader	object (View style)
listView	object (ListView style)
predefinedPlacesDescription	object (Text style)
poweredContainer	object (View style)
powered	object (Image style)
separator	object (View style)

Example

<GooglePlacesAutocomplete
  placeholder='Enter Location'
  minLength={2}
  autoFocus={false}
  returnKeyType={'default'}
  fetchDetails={true}
  styles={{
    textInputContainer: {
      backgroundColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,0)',
      borderTopWidth: 0,
      borderBottomWidth:0
    },
    textInput: {
      marginLeft: 0,
      marginRight: 0,
      height: 38,
      color: '#5d5d5d',
      fontSize: 16
    },
    predefinedPlacesDescription: {
      color: '#1faadb'
    },
  }}
  currentLocation={false}
/>

Features

• Places autocompletion
• iOS and Android compatibility
• Places details fetching + ActivityIndicatorIOS/ProgressBarAndroid loaders
• Customizable using the styles parameter
• XHR cancellations when typing fast
• Google Places terms compliant
• Current location
• Predefined places

Changelog

• 1.3.9 : Multiple bugfixes + fixed breaking change in React Native.
• 1.3.6 : Fixed accuracy issue.
• 1.3.5 : Fixed bug where input was being cleared.
• 1.3.4 : Fixed bug where loading was breaking the component.
• 1.3.3 : Fixed key prop warning and added loading indicator.
• 1.3.2 : Added small feature which makes the request on componentDidMount() when you already have the default value set.
• 1.3.1 : Update react-native peerDependecy. (> 0.46)
• 1.3.0 : Added support for React 16 (isMounted() and propTypes bugfix), support for restricted API key and moving from ListView to Flatlist.
• 1.2.12 : Fixed render description + docs.
• 1.2.11 : Fixed current location result onPress event.
• 1.2.10 : Set default debounce to 0. Fixed debounce typing lag.
• 1.2.9 : Added isRowScrollable prop.
• 1.2.8 : Added underlineColorAndroid, listUnderlayColor, renderLeftButton, renderRightButton props. Added nearbyPlacesAPI option None.

License

MIT

Authors

• Farid Safi
• Maxim Yaskevich
• Guilherme Pontes