AddLocation search bar autocomplete bug

[Antifragile]

Hey Comyar, great job with the app!

Have you come across a bug with the autocomplete suggestions in AddLocation search bar? It seems to have problems finding certain cities and suggests random locations for example, I typed in 'd' and it suggests 'Ronhert Park, CA' ?? No D's in there :)

Also certain major cities cannot be found but only some of the time. e.g. New York - sometimes it's suggested, sometimes not.

I'm having a look around for a fix and could submit a pull request if I find anything.

Are you able to reproduce this bug?

Any ideas what may be causing it?

[comyar]

Thanks!

I know what you mean, this really bugged me (and continues to bug me...) when I was working on the app. As far as I can tell, the issue is because of Apple's implementation of the back-end for CLGeocoder. The only fix I can think of is switching to a different service like Google's reverse geocoding API. I'm working on majorly refactoring the whole app at the moment, so I may switch over to using Google's API. In the meantime, if you find an easier fix, feel free to make a pull request.

[Antifragile]

Yeh that makes sense, it does appear to be CLGeocoder.

Google's api looks pretty solid. Also came across these as potential alternatives:

https://github.com/TarasRoshko/TRAutocompleteView

https://github.com/InfiniteLoopDK/ILGeoNames

[comyar]

I think I've settled on Google's API, it looks very simple and it has a high enough rate limit that I don't have to worry. API Page

Example Request for when a user searches 'Cal'

[Antifragile]

Sounds great Comyar.

I've got a version working running this (which uses google api) https://github.com/spoletto/SPGooglePlacesAutocomplete

The autocomplete results are definitely a lot better. However for some reason it has stopped displaying the background color on local and non-local weatherViews. Any idea what might cause that?? Apart from that it is working.

I used cocoa pods to install SPGooglePlacesAutocomplete so guess it may be something to do with that, that is causing the backgroundcolor bug.

Perhaps a clean implementation of google's api might be best way to go with it.

[comyar]

Hmm that's an odd bug, not sure what could have caused it. That project doesn't look like it's being updated anymore and I tend to avoid using dead libraries in my project. I've started working on my own wrapper around Google's geocoder API, you can see it here.

[comyar]

Alright, I wrote up a non-generalized solution to this here. Once I finish the work on my CZWeatherKit branch, it'll be included in the app. Thanks for bringing this up, I probably wouldn't have looked into it otherwise!