Migrate from Place Autocomplete (Legacy) to Place Autocomplete (New)

Places SDK for Android supports Place Autocomplete (Legacy) . If you are familiar with Place Autocomplete (Legacy), Place Autocomplete (New) makes the following changes:

• Uses a new pricing model. For pricing information for all APIs, see Places SDK for Android (New) .

• You must initialize your app by calling the Places.initializeWithNewPlacesApiEnabled() method. For more information on selecting the Places API service, see Set up your Google Cloud project .

• The FindAutocompletePredictionsRequest class contains new methods that let you:

  • Set the region code used to determine formatting of the results.
  • Set the prediction offset, a zero-based Unicode character offset of the query.

  For more information, see Autocomplete (New) .

• The session now concludes with a call to either Place Details (New) or Address Validation . For more information, see Autocomplete (New) and session pricing .

Example request

For a complete example, see Autocomplete (New) .