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Google Maps and Places in a Real-World React Native App (Part 1)
A complete React Native guide for building an app from scratch using Expo on Android
This is the first of a series of posts about the integration of Google Maps and Places in a real-world React Native app using Expo.
The Reason
One of the features required in my most recent side-project was to implement Google Maps and Places in a real-world React Native app using Expo. I found several tutorials, but none of them worked, at least for me. It was a tough battle to implement it.
I spent a lot of time trying to implement Google Maps and Places and getting lots of errors. I also spent a huge amount of time searching on Stack Overflow without any successful results. After this hard struggle, I finally achieved my goal. Then I thought, I should write a post series where I go through all the steps for how to implement this feature and more. So in this post, we’ll create a React native app integrating Google Maps and Places.
The Requirement
Give the user the ability to look for places nearby them and get all their information like photos, vicinity, address, rating, reviews, opening hours, and eventually, in a new version, add the function to look…
