PlaceDetectionApi

  • The Place Detection API and the Google Play Services Places SDK are deprecated; a new SDK is available.

  • This API provides quick access to the device's current location and allows reporting the device's location at a specific place.

  • Access to some methods of the Place Detection API is subject to a quota limit.

  • The getCurrentPlace method returns an estimate of the device's current location based on its last estimated location.

  • The reportDeviceAtPlace method allows reporting that the device is currently at a particular place.
public interface PlaceDetectionApi

This interface is deprecated.
The Google Play Services Places SDK is deprecated. A new SDK is available. See the client migration guide for more information.

Main entry point for the Google Place Detection API.

The Place Detection API provides quick access to the device's current place, and offers the opportunity to report the location of the device at a particular place (like a check in).

Some methods of the PlaceDetectionAPI are subject to a quota limit, as mentioned in the description of the methods concerned.

See PlacesStatusCodes for detailed information about the error codes.

Public Method Summary

abstract PendingResult<PlaceLikelihoodBuffer>
getCurrentPlace(GoogleApiClient client, PlaceFilter filter)
Returns an estimate of the place where the device is currently known to be located.
abstract PendingResult<Status>
reportDeviceAtPlace(GoogleApiClient client, PlaceReport report)
Reports that the device is currently at a particular place.

Public Methods

public abstract PendingResult<PlaceLikelihoodBuffer> getCurrentPlace (GoogleApiClient client, PlaceFilter filter)

Returns an estimate of the place where the device is currently known to be located.

Generates a PlaceLikelihoodBuffer based on the device's last estimated location. Only places which match the given filter will be returned. If the filter requests only coarse place types, results may be obtained at lower latency and power cost, especially over repeated calls.

The returned values may be obtained by means of a network lookup. The results are a best guess and are not guaranteed to be meaningful or correct.

This API requires the calling application to have the ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permission.

Access to this method is subject to quota restrictions.

Parameters
client
filter filtering criteria for the results. If the filter is null, then default filtering parameters are used (see PlaceFilter).
Returns
  • the PlaceLikelihoodBuffer, which may be empty if the place or location is not known or does not match the filtering criteria.

public abstract PendingResult<Status> reportDeviceAtPlace (GoogleApiClient client, PlaceReport report)

Reports that the device is currently at a particular place.

Parameters
client
report to be uploaded to the server.