#FTGooglePlacesAPI

An open-source iOS Objective-C library for querying Google Places API using simple callback-blocks based interface.

Perform Google Places API requests with ease in a few lines of code. Library includes, but is not limited to, following:

• Place Search
  • Nearby Search (search places withing a specified area)
  • Text Search (search places based on a search string)
• Place Details (get more comprehensive information about a place)

##Instalation

CocoaPods

FTGooglePlacesAPI is available as a CocoaPod

pod 'FTGooglePlacesAPI'

Manual (or using git submodule)

1. Implement AFNetworking 2.0
   • FTGooglePlacesAPI uses AFNetworking 2.0 for all of its networking. Why? Because it rocks!
2. Download source files from this repository
   • Or use GIT submodule ( git submodule add git@github.com:FuerteInternational/FTGooglePlacesAPI.git )
3. Add all files from FTGooglePlacesAPI folder to your project's target

##Usage

You can take a look at the detailed example usage project XcodeProject/FTGooglePlacesAPI.xcodeproj. Just be sure to provide your own API key. Or dive in yourself following these few steps...

1. Import FTGooglePlacesAPI files in your implementation file

#import "FTGooglePlacesAPI.h"

2. Setup service

In order to communicate with a Google Places API, you must first generate your own API key which you can get at Google Play Developer Console. You can also take a look at Introduction - Google Places API.

You must provide API key to a FTGooglePlacesAPI service before making any request using it. Good place for this code is the App Delegate.

//  Provide API key to FTGooglePlacesAPIService before making any requests
[FTGooglePlacesAPIService provideAPIKey:@"YOUR_API_KEY"];

Optionaly, you can enable debug logging. If this is set to YES and when building in debug mode (#ifdef DEBUG), service will print some debugging information to the console. In fact there is no need to remove this code even from Release build since the service will not produce any output in non-debug builds.

//  Optionally enable debug mode
[FTGooglePlacesAPIService setDebugLoggingEnabled:YES];

3. Create a request

Construct a desired request.

//  Create location around which to search (hardcoded location of Big Ben here)
CLLocationCoordinate2D locationCoordinate = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(51.501103,-0.124565);

//  Create request searching nearest galleries and museums
FTGooglePlacesAPINearbySearchRequest *request = [[FTGooglePlacesAPINearbySearchRequest alloc] initWithLocationCoordinate:locationCoordinate];
request.rankBy = FTGooglePlacesAPIRequestParamRankByDistance;
request.types = @[@"art_gallery", @"museum"];

There is a lot of possibilities since the implemented requests objects supports all of the API's functionality. See the example project and the Google Places API documentation.

Tip: You can determine user's current location very easily using FTLocationManager.

4. Perform request and handle the results

//  Execute Google Places API request using FTGooglePlacesAPIService
[FTGooglePlacesAPIService executeSearchRequest:request
                         withCompletionHandler:^(FTGooglePlacesAPISearchResponse *response, NSError *error) {
                             
     //  If error is not nil, request failed and you should handle the error
     if (error)
     {
         // Handle error here
         NSLog(@"Request failed. Error: %@", error);
         
         //  There may be a lot of causes for an error (for example networking error).
         //  If the network communication with Google Places API was successfull,
         //  but the API returned some non-ok status code, NSError will have
         //  FTGooglePlacesAPIErrorDomain domain and status code from
         //  FTGooglePlacesAPIResponseStatus enum
         //  You can inspect error's domain and status code for more detailed info
     }

     //  Everything went fine, we have response object we can process
     NSLog(@"Request succeeded. Response: %@", response);
}];

You must use the proper method based on a request type you want to perform because the service will construct the response objects based on a method being called.

Available methods are:

• + (void)executeSearchRequest:withCompletionHandler: for a both Nearest and Text Search requests
• + (void)executeDetailRequest:withCompletionHandler: for a Place Detail request

##Compatibility

• iOS 6+
  • Mainly because of a dependency on AFNetworking 2.0 (although it shouldn't be difficult for you to remove dependency on it)
• ARC

##Contact

FTGooglePlacesAPI is developed by Fuerte International. Please drop us an email to let us know you how you are using this component.

##Contributing and notes

• If you like the library, please consider giving it a Github star to let us know it.
• All header files are heavily commented in format compatible with Xcode 5 quick docs preview (Option + Click)
• Library is unit tested using Apple's XCTest and OCMock

Pull requests are very welcome expecting you follow few rules:

• Document your changes in a code comments and Git commit message
• Make sure your changes didn't cause any trouble using included example project, unit tests and if appropriate, implement unit tests and example code for your newly added functionality

##Version history

1.1

• Implemented deprecations for usage of id and reference properties as these has been deprecated by Google as of June 24, 2014. See Deprecation notice in documentation for more info.

1.0

• First official public release

##License

The MIT License (MIT)

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