Add support for Google Places (new)

[flikkr]

Hi @matanshukry

Thanks for the awesome package! Google Places has since updated their SDK and now call this new version Google Places (new). It adds a new text search API, a Review object, more place fields to filter by, and other changes, including an adjusted pricing model.

It would be great to support this new version in this plugin. I'm working on updating some of these packages to support this new version on Android side, but would need some support for iOS. I'm opening this ticket for posterity and tracking.

[Agyapaldhiman]

Any update on this?

[flikkr]

I have an initial PR #87 pending which updates the interface for the new features. I would need @matanshukry to review before we get to the rest of the changes.

[Josian2004]

Hi, I would like to assist in getting the new APIs added and I could help with the iOS part as I do have some experience with Swift. However I've got no idea how far along the implementation for the new API is and where I should begin with the iOS implementation.
My experience with developing Flutter packages is basically non-existent but I hope that I can still help getting this added ASAP

[flikkr]

Hi @Josian2004, happy to hear you are open to contribute. Since this is quite a technical integration with calls to native platform, I would suggest you first familiarise yourself with how Flutter packages and plugins work. There are plenty of resources on youtube but I would you get started by reading the official docs. Do note that this project is using a federated plugin structure, so each platform's implementation is contained in its own package (ios implementation is here).

Once you start developing the iOS code, please update the Places SDK to 9.0.0 for now to match the release on Android. You can see the release notes for iOS here to give you an idea of what needs to be implemented.