In one of my apps I need to add an ability to find a city by its name. I am using CLGeocoder to achieve this and I want it to have a behaviour identical to iOS
You can also do this by google API like this
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var urlString = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=\(searchString)&sensor=true&key=\(Google_Browser_Key)"
var linkUrl:NSURL = NSURL(string:urlString.stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)!
if(countElements(urlString)>0 && !urlString.isEmpty)
{
// if let fileData = String(contentsOfURL: NSURL(string: urlString)!, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding, error: nil)
if let fileData = String(contentsOfURL: linkUrl, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding, error: nil)
{
println(fileData)
var data = fileData.dataUsingEncoding(NSASCIIStringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: false)
var localError: NSError?
if(data != nil)
{
var json: AnyObject! = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data!, options: NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers, error: &localError)
}
}
}