hi there! we’re developing an app using Gemini API with Google Maps grounding but are having a lot of issues with displaying results to the user due to missing grounding information. Here’s our request verbatim: { "contents": [ { "role": "user", "parts": [ …

Gemini with Google Maps grounding and widget enable does not return grounding chunks or widget token

Ilya_Yakovenenko January 28, 2026, 3:15pm 3

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