react-native-place-picker

Features

• 🎨 Theme customization.
• 📱 UI written natively.
• 🗺️ Location reverse-geocoding (coordinate -> address).
• 🔍 Searchable (users can search for location).
• 📍 Device location.
• ⚙️ Fully configurable.
• 🏗️ Supporting Turbo Modules (New Arch) with backward compatibility.
• ⚡ Renders on top of the app (Blazing Fast).
• 📐 Well typed.
• 📦 Significantly small package.
• 🔗 No peer dependencies except React and React-Native ^[1].

How is it working?

This plugin is built only by create native page UIViewController for iOS or Activity for Android. and present the page in front of React Native Application without any special dependencies just native code

Installation

npm install react-native-place-picker
# or
yarn add react-native-place-picker
# or
pnpm add react-native-place-picker
# or
bun add react-native-place-picker

Expo

• You need to add expo-dev-client and run expo run:ios or expo run:android

Info Expo managed app not supported 🚧

iOS

• If you want to enable user current location button you have to add this to your Info.plist

<key>NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription</key>
<string>YOUR_PURPOSE_HERE</string>

Android ⚠️

• Add to your AndroidManifest.xml you Google Map API Key or your application will crash

<meta-data
   android:name="com.google.android.geo.API_KEY"
   android:value="YOUR_KEY" />

Request

import { pickPlace } from "react-native-place-picker";

pickPlace({
  enableUserLocation: true,
  enableGeocoding: true,
  color: "#FF00FF",
  //...etc
})
  .then(console.log)
  .catch(console.log);

// or

pickPlace().then(console.log).catch(console.log);

Result

{
    /**
     * @description Selected coordinate.
     */
    coordinate: PlacePickerCoordinate;
    /**
     * @description Geocoded address for selected location.
     * @if `enableGeocoding: true`
     */
    address?: PlacePickerAddress;
    /**
     * @description Did cancel the place picker window without selecting.
     */
    didCancel: boolean;
}

PlacePickerOptions

Property	Type	Description	Default
presentationStyle	PlacePickerPresentationStyle | string	Presentation style of the place picker window. iOS only	'fullscreen'
title	string	The title of the place picker window.	'Choose Place'
searchPlaceholder	string	Placeholder for the search bar in the place picker window.	'Search...'
color	string	Primary color of the theme (map pin, shadow, etc.).	'#FF0000'
contrastColor	string	Contrast color for the primary color.	'#FFFFFF'
locale	string	Locale for the returned address.	'en-US'
initialCoordinates	PlacePickerCoordinate	Initial map position.	{ latitude: 25.2048, longitude: 55.2708 }
enableGeocoding	boolean	geocoding for the selected address.	true
enableSearch	boolean	search bar for searching specific positions.	true
enableUserLocation	boolean	current user position button. Requires setup.	true
enableLargeTitle	boolean	large navigation bar title of the UIViewController. iOS only	true
rejectOnCancel	boolean	Reject and return nothing if the user dismisses the window without selecting a place.	true

PlacePickerPresentationStyle

Enum Value	Description
modal	Presentation style as a modal window.
fullscreen	Presentation style in fullscreen mode.

PlacePickerAddress

Property	Type	Description
name	string	Name of the location.
streetName	string	Street name of the address.
city	string	City of the address.
state	string	State of the address.
zipCode	string	Zip code of the address.
country	string	Country of the address.

PlacePickerCoordinate

Property	Type	Description
latitude	number	Latitude of the location.
longitude	number	Longitude of the location.

PlacePickerResults

Property	Type	Description
coordinate	PlacePickerCoordinate	Selected coordinate.
address	PlacePickerAddress	Geocoded address for selected location (if enableGeocoding).
didCancel	boolean	Indicates if the place picker was canceled without selecting.

Contributing

See the contributing guide to learn how to contribute to the repository and the development workflow.

License

MIT