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I definitely would like to use the PlacePicker in my App, but only if I could restrict the type of places being shown. Currently it might be confusing for users to find the place they are looking for among all the other places of irrelevant type. At least it way easier to find the one you're looking for if only relevant places would be shown.

It is currently kind of useless for most use cases. And really very very slow.

A filter on type would improve speed, and usability.

It might influence the growth of a great number of mobile apps for various types of users.

 I believe that this feature would be extremely useful.

Is there any timeline or any plans as to whether or not this feature will be implemented soon?

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I think, this is one of most important feature. Almost every app that uses Place API, restrict the places to some types.

If we need a place as input, we could call the PlacePicker, but if the user can only select from establishment places? Now the PlacePicker has all the places in the earth available, and this is a bad UX.  So, we will have to create our own "PlacePicker".

So only if we can filter the places, the PlacePicker may be useful at all.

There's a deadline to this feature?

Is this a feature that will be implemented? Its been 3 months..

As an Android developer I'd love that feature!

really really really want this, if its in the web api why not for android/ios?

I agree - this feature would be really really useful. Currently I have to move towards using the web service api instead just so I can filter by place type.

this feature will be really useful!

I realy need this feature for my app.

Very important feature. Looking forward to integrating PlacePicker with my app if this feature gets added.

need this feature asap

This feature is very important for my app.

Any update on this ?

Hopefully we will see this at some stage, it would be announced with a Google Play Services update I imagine.

Can't understand why isn't it done yet.

I think a lot of people are waiting on this! It would be an awesome update.

I fully agree - this feature is needed badly!

need this feature ASAP would cut my dev time by soooooooooooo much!!

We need this feature pleae.
It's rhetorical for anyone to filter out what they want too see and yet they didn't add the feature.

Immensely important feature - we need to show just localities and sublocalities.

This would be so useful. Please implement this.

Please do it. Peaseeeeee

Ok Google. Just do it.

Google don't give a shit on all this comments...sometime thinking about relocating on iOS because of this...Anytime there are problem, google is useless...
At least respond here and tell that we will do it in next release.

Graser1305, while I understand your frustration at the lack of interaction on this comment thread, please understand we have very real limitations due to the small number of engineers compared to the size of the problems we are trying to solve as a company. We work on features and bug fixes based on the potential impact across of all of our users. We do read all comments, and take them into account when prioritizing fixes and new features. Thanks!

Grazer1305 does have a point about response though. A simple acknowledgment on a regular basis would do wonders when it comes to abating some of the frustration here.

https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/list?can=2&q=apitype=AndroidPlaces&sort=-stars&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Introduced%20Fixed%20Summary%20Stars%20ApiType%20Internal

It is the number 1 and number 4 most starred item for AndroidPlaces at this time. It is the number 24 overall starred item in the project. This item has been in new state for over a year, hence some of the frustration.

When I first created this posting back in August 2015, I didn't expect it to still be outstanding to be honest.

It is an OBVIOUS feature that everyone seems to want.

I was surprised to find this wasn't supported. Now I'm having to look for alternatives :(

I m waiting for this to be reality

Extremely useful feature request !

waiting for it

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Pretty please ;)

any update on this issue? =)

just do it :)

Hello, Google world!
It took almost 2 years since my first comment.
Any plans to implement this feature?

I'm still waiting...

Excellent! Glad to have this looked at. Cheers.

When can we expect this to use?

When it would be available ?

Hey folks,
We hear you that this is a feature of interest. We hope to do this but it probably wouldn't be for several quarters. Thanks for understanding-- we have a lot on our plate!

We would be happy to help if you need programmers. please make this happens.
Thanks,

When? T_T

Waiting for...

+1 PlacePicker lacks many interesting features as compared to WebService. I am looking for a filter option by PlaceType in the PlacePicker. For now, I ll hit the web service. Waiting for the feature release.

Thanks :)

i need realy this feature, omg google, please, implement this feature.

+1 StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46239466/search-places-by-type-in-android-google-places-api

Would be really nice if Place Picker has this feature

Please implement this feature! A lot of developers would appreciate it

Android O has been out, but this feature isn't implemented yet :(

Curious to know why this has been ignored by google. Very useful to developers.

use google api for place search via the url request, check this link :
https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/search#PlaceSearchRequests
there is a type parameter which you can use to restrict the result.
get the result in josn and parse it, get the places and make marker for each place
this way you can find a specific type of places, but you have to build your own activity/dialog to show a map with places then select the place you want>

I hope this is useful

Of course we can use web service, and it is what i actually did with my applications. But if the feature can be implemented, it will be great, since we don't need to call web service manually, parse the result and pass the the parsed result to Map API.

Still not implemented?

I guess it won't be fixed. The link is about using web-services not the place picker.

I need this function, plz

Is this feature implemented or not

Any updates?

Is this feature added or is there any way to restrict user to select a place within country?

still nothing?

Assigning to new Places PM

waiting for this feature :) it will be great if place picker have more customization in show/hide its ui components also places types to be selected and reflected on map :)

Waiting for this feature!

Still not implemented?

any update on it?

Please, I need this!

Come on Google, empower us!

we so need this ...

Same here.. :)

welp , i guess it's not going to happens anytime soon :(

nothing changed, it's really an interesting feature if implemented

Place Picker is deprecated (as of Jan 29, 2019) and will be disabled permanently on Jul 29, 2019:  https://developers.google.com/places/android-sdk/placepicker

gg wp