Places Swift SDK for iOS

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• Places Swift SDK for iOS (Preview) offers a Swift-native experience with benefits like value types, default parameters, optionals, concurrency support, and improved type safety, built upon the existing Places SDK for iOS.

• It's currently in preview mode and exclusively available for new Places SDK for iOS APIs, including Place Autocomplete, Details, Photos, Text Search, and Nearby Search.

• Migration from the existing Places SDK for iOS can be done incrementally as the new Swift SDK works alongside older implementations.

• The GitHub URL for Places Swift SDK for iOS (Preview) has been updated to https://github.com/googlemaps/ios-places-sdk, replacing the previous URL.

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Places Swift SDK for iOS provides a Swift-first version of the Places SDK for iOS SDK. Places Swift SDK for iOS offers all the same capabilities that users are familiar with from the Places SDK for iOS, with many added benefits gained from being implemented directly in Swift. These benefits make use of Swift's unique qualities, and therefore promote writing more idiomatic Swift code.

Key features of the Places Swift SDK include:

• Extensive use of value types, default parameter values, and optionals
• Support for Swift concurrency.
• Improved type-safety.

Places Swift SDK for iOS is available exclusively in the Places SDK for iOS (New) APIs, which are comprised of the following products:

• Place Autocomplete (New)
• Place Details (New)
• Places UI Kit
• Place Photos (New)
• Text Search (New)
• Nearby Search (New)

Migrate from the Places SDK for iOS to the Places Swift SDK for iOS

Places Swift SDK for iOS code works alongside older implementations, so your migration can be done incrementally.

For more information, and to learn how to migrate to the new SDK, review the migration guide.

Note: The URL to access Places Swift SDK for iOS has changed. It is now https://github.com/googlemaps/ios-places-sdk. If you have been using the previous URL (https://github.com/googlemaps/ios-places-swift-sdk), remove that GitHub URL from your Xcode package dependencies and enter the updated one.

If you try to add GooglePlacesSwift from a deprecated repository, you will see the following error message: Failed to resolve dependencies Dependencies could not be resolved because no versions of 'ios-places-swift-sdk' match the requirement 0.2.0 and root depends on 'ios-places-swift-sdk' 0.2.0.

See the installation page for more information.

Next steps

• Learn how to enable the Places SDK for iOS and start using Places Swift SDK for iOS.
• Review the Places Swift SDK for iOS API Reference.
• See the release notes for Places Swift SDK for iOS