Google places autocompletes API Android : bounds not working

Question

I'm defining my bounds as follow:

private static final LatLngBounds BOUNDS_CHENNAI = new LatLngBounds(
        new LatLng(12.8339547, 80.0817007), new LatLng(13.2611661, 80.33632279999999)); // Chennai city bounds.

Creating Goolge API client as follow:

mGoogleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this)
            .enableAutoManage(this,this)
            .addApi(Places.GEO_DATA_API)
            .addConnectionCallbacks(this)
            .build();

And using those bounds in adapter as follow:

PendingResult<AutocompletePredictionBuffer> results =
                Places.GeoDataApi
                        .getAutocompletePredictions(mGoogleApiClient, constraint.toString(),
                                mBounds, mPlaceFilter);

According to the documentation is should return me only location within Chennai city, but it returns me location from around the world.

E.g. When I type "Sola" it returns "Sola road" of Ahmedabad city instead of showing matched results within bounds.

Answer 1

I have the same problem with the bounds in android. I've tried everything and can't solve the problem.

Looking for other web pages, i found this in the documentation for javascript when trying to set bounds to an area:

The results are biased towards, but not restricted to, Places contained within these bounds.

It looks like the android places api documentation is not complete. We will have to wait.