Google Maps Geocoding API key usage count

Question

i'm developing an Android app requiring to show current position on a satellite styled google map. No routing, no address resolution and so on.

I wasn't able to understand if, for this purpose, my API key usage is unlimited or not.

According to the pricing plans link

Google Maps Android API: Unlimited free usage.

Google Places API for Android: Default 1,000 free requests per day, increased to 150,000 free requests per day after credit card validation.

But checking here is stated that

The Google Maps Geolocation API returns a location and accuracy radius based on information about cell towers and WiFi nodes that the mobile client can detect.

And they have 2500 daily usage limit per key.

I'm a bit confused, and in case my usage is limited, how the API usage is counted? Everytime i open the map and on overy update of the position?

Thanks

Answer 1

They count everytime you call their API. They've different API and each API has its own counter and limit. You could call 500 times to Geolocation API and only call 100 times to Places API.