Google Maps Place Picker

A Flutter plugin which provides ‘Picking Place’ using Open Street, Here Maps and Google Maps widget.

Much thanks to Terry Kwon

The project relies on below packages.

Map using Flutter’s official google_maps_flutter Fetching current location using Baseflow’s geolocator Place and Geocoding API using hadrienlejard’s google_maps_webservice Builder using kevmoo’s tuple

The package comes along with Laravel(PHP Framework) server which you can host for on your own. Link to serve repository here…

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Getting Started

• Get an API key at https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/.

• Enable Google Map SDK for each platform.

  • Go to Google Developers Console.
  • Choose the project that you want to enable Google Maps on.
  • Select the navigation menu and then select “Google Maps”.
  • Select “APIs” under the Google Maps menu.
  • To enable Google Maps for Android, select “Maps SDK for Android” in the “Additional APIs” section, then select “ENABLE”.
  • To enable Google Maps for iOS, select “Maps SDK for iOS” in the “Additional APIs” section, then select “ENABLE”.
  • Make sure the APIs you enabled are under the “Enabled APIs” section.

• You can also find detailed steps to get started with Google Maps Platform here.

Android

Specify your API key in the application manifest android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml:

<manifest ...
  <application ...
    <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.geo.API_KEY"
               android:value="YOUR KEY HERE"/>

NOTE: As of version 3.0.0 the geolocator plugin switched to the AndroidX version of the Android Support Libraries. This means you need to make sure your Android project is also upgraded to support AndroidX. Detailed instructions can be found here.

The TL;DR version is:

1. Add the following to your “gradle.properties” file:

android.useAndroidX=true
android.enableJetifier=true

2. Make sure you set the compileSdkVersion in your “android/app/build.gradle” file to 28:

android {
 compileSdkVersion 28

 ...
}

3. Make sure you replace all the android. dependencies to their AndroidX counterparts (a full list can be found here: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/migrate).

iOS

Specify your API key in the application delegate ios/Runner/AppDelegate.m:

#include "AppDelegate.h"
#include "GeneratedPluginRegistrant.h"
#import "GoogleMaps/GoogleMaps.h"

@implementation AppDelegate

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application
    didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
  [GMSServices provideAPIKey:@"YOUR KEY HERE"];
  [GeneratedPluginRegistrant registerWithRegistry:self];
  return [super application:application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:launchOptions];
}
@end

Or in your swift code, specify your API key in the application delegate ios/Runner/AppDelegate.swift:

import UIKit
import Flutter
import GoogleMaps

@UIApplicationMain
@objc class AppDelegate: FlutterAppDelegate {
  override func application(
    _ application: UIApplication,
    didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?
  ) -> Bool {
    GMSServices.provideAPIKey("YOUR KEY HERE")
    GeneratedPluginRegistrant.register(with: self)
    return super.application(application, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: launchOptions)
  }
}

On iOS you’ll need to add the following entries to your Info.plist file (located under ios/Runner) in order to access the device’s location.

Simply open your Info.plist file and add the following:

<key>NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription</key>
<string>This app needs access to location when open.</string>
<key>NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription</key>
<string>This app needs access to location when in the background.</string>
<key>NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription</key>
<string>This app needs access to location when open and in the background.</string>

In addition, you need to add the Background Modes capability to your XCode project (Project > Signing and Capabilties > “+ Capability” button) and select Location Updates.g>This app needs access to location when open and in the background.

Opt-in to the embedded views preview by adding a boolean property to the app’s Info.plist file with the key io.flutter.embedded_views_preview and the value YES.

<key>io.flutter.embedded_views_preview</key>
<true/>

Usage

Basic usage

You can use PlacePicker by pushing to a new page using Navigator, OR put as a child of any widget. When the user picks a place on the map, it will return result to ‘onPlacePicked’ with PickResult type. Alternatively, you can build your own way with ‘selectedPlaceWidgetBuilder’ and fetch result from it (See the instruction below).

Navigator.push(
      context,
      MaterialPageRoute(
        builder: (context) => FlutterPlacePicker(
          apiKey: APIKeys.apiKey,   // Put YOUR OWN KEY here.
          onPlacePicked: (result) { 
            print(result.address); 
            Navigator.of(context).pop();
          },
          initialPosition: HomePage.kInitialPosition,
          useCurrentLocation: true,
        ),
      ),
    );

PickResult

** Below results will be fetched only when using auto-complete search or usePlaceDetailSearch is set to true when searching by dragging the map.

PickResult (Optional)

More info about results at Google document.

PlacePicker

More info about autocomplete search at Google document.

Customizing picked place visualisation

By default, when a user picks a place by using auto complete search or dragging the map, we display the information at the bottom of the screen (FloatingCard).

However, if you don’t like this UI/UX, simply override the builder using ‘selectedPlaceWidgetBuilder’. FlocatingCard widget can be reused which is floating around the screen or build an entirely new widget as you want. It is stacked with the map, so you might want to use the Positioned widget.

Note that using this customization WILL NOT INVOKE [onPlacePicked] callback as it will override default ‘Select here’ button on floating card

...
PlacePicker(apiKey: APIKeys.apiKey,
            ...
            selectedPlaceWidgetBuilder: (_, selectedPlace, state, isSearchBarFocused) {
              return isSearchBarFocused
                  ? Container()
                  // Use FloatingCard or just create your own Widget.
                  : FloatingCard(
                      bottomPosition: 0.0,    // MediaQuery.of(context) will cause rebuild. See MediaQuery document for the information.
                      leftPosition: 0.0,
                      rightPosition: 0.0,
                      width: 500,
                      borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(12.0),
                      child: state == SearchingState.Searching ? 
                                      Center(child: CircularProgressIndicator()) : 
                                      RaisedButton(onPressed: () { print("do something with [selectedPlace] data"); },),
                   );
            },
            ...
          ),
...

Customizing Pin

By default, Pin icon is provided with very simple picking animation when moving around. However, you can also create your own pin widget using ‘pinBuilder’

FlutterPlacePicker(apiKey: APIKeys.apiKey,
            ...
            pinBuilder: (context, state) {
                  if (state == PinState.Idle) {
                    return Icon(Icons.favorite_border);
                  } else {
                    return AnimatedIcon(.....);
                  }
                },
            ...                        
          ),
...

Changing Colours of default FloatingCard

While you can build your own prediction tile, you still can change the style of default tile using themeData as below:

// Light Theme
final ThemeData lightTheme = ThemeData.light().copyWith(
  // Background color of the FloatingCard
  cardColor: Colors.white,
  buttonTheme: ButtonThemeData(
    // Select here's button color
    buttonColor: Colors.black,
    textTheme: ButtonTextTheme.primary,
  ),
);

// Dark Theme
final ThemeData darkTheme = ThemeData.dark().copyWith(
  // Background color of the FloatingCard
  cardColor: Colors.grey,
  buttonTheme: ButtonThemeData(
    // Select here's button color
    buttonColor: Colors.yellow,
    textTheme: ButtonTextTheme.primary,
  ),
);

Feature Requests and Issues

Please file feature requests and bugs at the issue tracker.

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