Get city name and postal code from Google Place API on Android

Question

I\'m using Google Place API for Android with autocomplete

Everything works fine, but when I get the result as shown here, I don\'t have the city and postal code info

Answer 1

City name and postal code can be retrieved in 2 steps

1) Making a web-service call to https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?key=API_KEY&input=your_inpur_char. The JSON contains the place_id field which can be used in step 2.

2) Make another web-service call to https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?key=API_KEY&placeid=place_id_retrieved_in_step_1. This will return a JSON which contains address_components. Looping through the types to find locality and postal_code can give you the city name and postal code.

Code to achieve it

JSONArray addressComponents = jsonObj.getJSONObject("result").getJSONArray("address_components");
        for(int i = 0; i < addressComponents.length(); i++) {
            JSONArray typesArray = addressComponents.getJSONObject(i).getJSONArray("types");
            for (int j = 0; j < typesArray.length(); j++) {
                if (typesArray.get(j).toString().equalsIgnoreCase("postal_code")) {
                    postalCode = addressComponents.getJSONObject(i).getString("long_name");
                }
                if (typesArray.get(j).toString().equalsIgnoreCase("locality")) {
                    city = addressComponents.getJSONObject(i).getString("long_name")
                }
            }
        }