Migrate from Places SDK for Android (Legacy) to Places SDK for Android (New)

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This feature requires that you enable Places API (New), the next generation of the Places API. For more information, see Enable APIs.

Places SDK for Android (Legacy) supports Place Autocomplete (Legacy). If you are familiar with Place Autocomplete (Legacy), Places SDK for Android (New) makes the following changes:

• Uses a new pricing model. For pricing information for all APIs, see Usage and billing.

• You must initialize your app by calling the Places.initializeWithNewPlacesApiEnabled() method. For more information on selecting the Places API service, see Set up your Google Cloud project.

• The FindAutocompletePredictionsRequest class contains new methods that let you:

  • Set the region code used to determine formatting of the results.
  • Set the prediction offset, a zero-based Unicode character offset of the query.

  For more information, see Autocomplete (New).

• The session now concludes with a call to either Place Details (New) or Address Validation. For more information, see Autocomplete (New) and session pricing.

Example request

For a complete example, see Autocomplete (New).