Yandex Place Picker

Google Maps SDK used to feature a Place Picker. It was deprecated and removed. There is a custom library called PING that implements similar functionality using the Geocoder API. It's expensive.

Yandex Place Picker is partially based on PING, and provides you with the same functionality utilising Yandex MapKit. At no cost.

A key difference

There is a capability to utilize icons, but Google's icon names differ from Yandex's (and there isn't a full list anywhere to find), which requires manual renaming of all the icons. A few of them (banks, for example) are included. Feel free to contribute with more icons.

Download

Add JitPack in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:

allprojects {
	repositories {
		...
		maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
	}
}

Step 2. Add the dependency

dependencies {
        implementation 'com.github.vanyasem:YandexPlacePicker:1.1.4'
}

Hands on

Sign up for MapKit API keys - How to

Check the sample project for a full working example.

Java

    private void showPlacePicker() {
        YandexPlacePicker.IntentBuilder builder = new YandexPlacePicker.IntentBuilder();
        builder.setYandexMapsKey("YOUR_MAPKIT_API_KEY");
        Intent placeIntent = builder.build(getActivity());
        startActivityForResult(placeIntent, REQUEST_PLACE_PICKER);
    }
    
    @Override  
    public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {  
        if ((requestCode == REQUEST_PLACE_PICKER)) {  
            if(data != null) {
                PlaceParcelable place = YandexPlacePicker.getPlace(data);
                Toast.makeText(this, "You selected: " + place.getName(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        }
    }

Configuration

You can alter the behavior of the picker by editing config.xml.

<bool name="show_confirmation_dialog">true</bool>

<bool name="show_confirmation_buttons">false</bool>

<bool name="show_pins_on_map">true</bool>

<bool name="show_place_icons">true</bool>

<bool name="search_on_scroll">false</bool>

<integer name="default_zoom">17</integer>

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 RU Docs: https://tech.yandex.ru/maps/staticapi/doc/1.x/dg/concepts/markers-docpage/
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<string name="confirmation_marker" translatable="false">org</string>

License

Copyright 2019-2020 Ivan Semkin

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.