Is it possible to not take over screen? Google Places IOS swift - ios

Question

Below codes from Google only return a place if I pick one from the list like the one I attached.
My question:
Is there any function available for me to store all the place's detail in a given coordinate? For example, if I have a coordinate of (51.5108396, -0.0922251), how can I get all the information of nearby places? I am not familiar with Json. Is there any example close to what I want? Thanks a lot.
This function placesClient.currentPlaceWithCallback is somehow close to what I want but it cannot use custom coordinate because it uses user's current coordinate.
//https://developers.google.com/places/ios-api/placepicker
let center = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(51.5108396, -0.0922251)
let northEast = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(center.latitude + 0.001, center.longitude + 0.001)
let southWest = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(center.latitude - 0.001, center.longitude - 0.001)
let viewport = GMSCoordinateBounds(coordinate: northEast, coordinate: southWest)
let config = GMSPlacePickerConfig(viewport: viewport)
let placePicker = GMSPlacePicker(config: config)
placePicker?.pickPlaceWithCallback({ (place: GMSPlace?, error: NSError?) -> Void in
if let error = error {
print("Pick Place error: \(error.localizedDescription)")
return
}
if let place = place {
print("Place name \(place.name)")
print("Place address \(place.formattedAddress)")
print("Place attributions \(place.attributions)")
} else {
print("No place selected")
}
})

Answer 1

Fetching nearby places using google maps
Something is changed due to upgraded iOS version.
complete changed code
func fetchPlacesNearCoordinate(coordinate: CLLocationCoordinate2D, radius: Double, types:[String]) {
var urlString = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?key=\("your api key")&location=\(coordinate.latitude),\(coordinate.longitude)&radius=\(radius)&rankby=prominence&sensor=true"
let typesString = types.count > 0 ? types.joinWithSeparator("|") : "food"
urlString += "&types=\(typesString)"
urlString = urlString.stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters(NSCharacterSet.URLQueryAllowedCharacterSet())!
UIApplication.sharedApplication().networkActivityIndicatorVisible = true
let session = NSURLSession.sharedSession()
let placesTask = session.dataTaskWithURL(NSURL(string: urlString)!) {data, response, error in
UIApplication.sharedApplication().networkActivityIndicatorVisible = false
if let jsonResult = (try? NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data!, options: NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers)) as? NSDictionary {
let returnedPlaces: NSArray? = jsonResult["results"] as? NSArray
if returnedPlaces != nil {
for index in 0..<returnedPlaces!.count {
if let returnedPlace = returnedPlaces?[index] as? NSDictionary {
var placeName = ""
var latitude = 0.0
var longitude = 0.0
if let name = returnedPlace["name"] as? NSString {
placeName = name as String
}
if let geometry = returnedPlace["geometry"] as? NSDictionary {
if let location = geometry["location"] as? NSDictionary {
if let lat = location["lat"] as? Double {
latitude = lat
}
if let lng = location["lng"] as? Double {
longitude = lng
}
}
}
print("index", index, placeName, latitude, longitude)
}
}
}
}
}
placesTask.resume()
}