Limit Android Google Places API to search only given area

Question

I`m using Android Google Places API to autocomplete streets and addresses. The problem is that it gives all streets from a whole country. Of course I added bounds to limit place

Answer 1

I'm afraid Places API for Android doesn't support strict bounds yet. There is a feature request in Google Issue tracker to implement this:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/38188994

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In the meantime the workaround might be using Places API web service that supports strict bounds and implement the UI manually.

UPDATE

The feature request was marked as Fixed by Google. Have a look at https://stackoverflow.com/a/50134855/5140781 that shows how to apply strict bounds in Places API for Android.