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Android Studio 2 Essentials - Second Edition

By : Belén Cruz Zapata
Book Image

Android Studio 2 Essentials - Second Edition

By: Belén Cruz Zapata

Overview of this book

Android Studio 2, the official IDE for Android application development, dramatically improves your workflow by letting you quickly see changes running on your device or emulator. It gives developers a unique platform by making app builds and deployment faster. This book will get you up and running with all the essential features of Android Studio 2 to optimize your development workflow. Starting off with the basic installation and configuration of Android Studio 2, this book will help you build a new project by showing you how to create a custom launcher icon and guiding you to choose your project. You will then gain an insight into the additional tools provided in Android Studio, namely the Software Development Kit (SDK) Manager, Android Virtual Device (AVD) Manager, and Javadoc. You’ll also see how to integrate Google Play Services in an Android project. Finally, you’ll become familiar with the Help section in Android Studio, which will enable you to search for support you might require in different scenarios.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Android Studio 2 Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Google Places


Using the Google Places API, your app can access the Google's places database. This database has information about business and local places: name, address, photos, phone number, rating, type, coordinates, website, or price level. Add the following dependency in your Gradle's build file to include the Google Places API package in your app:

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:8.4.0'

To use the Google Places API, an API key is needed. This key is the same one that you obtained to use the Google Maps API. Once you have it, add it to your app's manifest file, inside the application element, using the following code:

<meta-data android:name="com.google.android.geo.API_KEY"
android:value="YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"/>

The GoogleApiClient class is used to access the API. Add the Google Places API in the Build method by indicating any of the two available Places API keys:

  • Geo Data API: This API provides access to Google's database, which contains the information about local...