Trigger Google Places Autocomplete

I am trying to attach a virtual keyboard to bind to a Google places autocomplete input. If I physically type in a letter in the input, a Google-powered dropdown displays the autocomplete predictions based on where the map is centered. If I click on a virtual keyboard key, the input gets updated properly, but the autocomplete predictions are not updated. I have tried to use the virtual keyboard `change` callback to trigger a "keyup" (stackoverflow results), "keypress", "keydown", "change" and I even tried this (demo): ``` change : function(e, keyboard, el) { google.maps.event.trigger(autocomplete, 'place_changed'); } ``` which results in a javascript error basically showing that `autocomplete.getPlace();` does not return a result. So now I've tried the code below (in this demo), which uses the change callback to trigger an autocomplete prediction, but as you can see in that demo, the results differ. ``` change : function(e, keyboard, el) { var $el = $(el), service = new google.maps.places.AutocompleteService(); if ($el.val() !== "") { service.getQueryPredictions({ input: $(el).val() }, function(predictions, status) { if (status != google.maps.places.PlacesServiceStatus.OK) { alert(status); return; } var list = '', $results = $('#results'); for (var i = 0, prediction; prediction = predictions[i]; i++) { list += '<li>' + prediction.description + '</li>'; } $results.html(list); }); } } ``` Ideally, I want to trigger the already established autocomplete prediction dropdown to update while typing on the virtual keyboard.