Android Place Picker closes immediately after launch

Question

I am developing an android application as part of a project, and am using Google places API to display places of interest based on location. I am using the PlacePicker Inent

Answer 1

In my case when I changed current API key with the one which is in google-service.json, it resolved the problem.

In google-services.json:

 "api_key": [
        {
          "current_key": "PASTE THIS API KEY TO THE MANIFEST"
        }
      ]

Answer 2

This issue made me crazy as well, there are so many issues regarding exactly this problem, but no one was helpful for me. At the end, I figured out that there are different Google Places APIs especially for Android. Consequently, the API-Key that I was using was simply for the non-Android version.

Generate your key using this link https://developers.google.com/places/android-api/signup

Answer 3

May be you forgot to add your machine SHA key to the Google Maps Console. Faced same issue, Added my SHA Key to the console, it started working fine.

Answer 4

It was strange that it was a credentials problem for me. It works even without a warning in debugging mode but when i use released version of my app it just doesnt work (i have registered my release and debug sha1 keys) So i removed all restrictions and now its working.

Answer 5

Francois Wouts' solutions helped answer this. Thank you Francois...

I searched the logs with keyword 'Places' and found that Places API was indeed throwing an exception. It expected the com.google.android.geo.API_KEY within the <application> tags in the Manifest.xml.

I had changed to com.google.android.geo.API_KEY in the <activity> tag and not the one in the <application> tag.

Now changed to com.google.android.geo.API_KEY and removed the same lines from <activity> tag, and got it working. Feel like an idiot for not working this out by myself..

The meta-data tag should read android:name="com.google.android.geo.API_KEY"
It should be within the <application> tag in the Manifest.

Answer 6

In manifest file com.google.android.geo.api_key and com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY shouldnot be same.

go to https://console.developers.google.com/project

login and follow these steps to get key for placepicker places.

create or choose existing > use google apis > Google Places API for Android > enable > credentials in left menu > add credentials > api key > android key > create > copy key.

paste your key at manifest "com.google.android.geo.api_key"

Note : there is a limit of 1000 requests per day for google places api. after you have to pay money. Better to avoid PlacePicker.