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The Place Kit encapsulates Google Places SDK for Android and HUAWEI Site Kit.

Introduction

The Place Kit allows you to build location-aware apps that respond contextually to the local businesses and other places near the user's device. This means you can build rich apps based on places that mean something to the user, to complement the straightforward geographic-based services offered by the Android location services.

Concept

The Places interface provides programmatic access to the provider's database of local place and business information, as well as the device's current place.

A place is defined as a physical space that has a name. Another way of thinking about a place is that it's anything you can find on a map. Examples include local businesses, points of interest, and geographic locations.

Note: Whenever your app displays information about places sourced from the Place Kit, the app must also show all relevant attributions that are returned by the API. See the provider's documentation on displaying attributions.

API overview

Help your customers explore where they are and what’s around them:

• Place Autocomplete automatically fills in the name and/or address of a place as users type.

• Place Details return and display more detailed information about a place.

Note: The provider might gather anonymous usage statistics.

Policies and Terms

All applications that use the Place Kit must adhere to the requirements described in the provider's documentation.