I am getting the following exception while trying out google places API to get likelihood places for Current Place in android.
Process: me.nabeelkottol.linke
OK. I hope you didn't have to waste as much time as I did to find out this. But to get @Umar Ata 's answer working you need to put in both of the meta-data tags in your manifest file. So it should go like this.
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And even after getting everything right it gave me error: PLACES_API_ACCESS_NOT_CONFIGURED 9003 which I got fixed by enabling Places SDK for Android and things finally got well.