On-device machine learning solutions with ML Kit, now even easier to use
Posted by Christiaan Prins, Product Manager, ML Kit and Shiyu Hu, Tech Lead Manager, ML Kit Two years ago at I/O 2018 we introduced ML Kit, making it easier for mobile developers to integrate machine learning into your apps. Today, more than 25,000 applications on Android and iOS make use of ML Kit’s features. Now, we are introducing some changes that will make it even easier to use ML Kit. In addition, we have a new feature and a set of improvements we’d like to discuss. A new ML Kit SDK, fully focused on on-device ML ML Kit's APIs are built to help you tackle common challenges in the Vision and Natural Language domains. We make it easy to recognize text, scan barcodes, track and classify objects in real-time, do translation of text, and more. The original version of ML Kit was tightly integrated with Firebase, and we heard from many of you that you wanted more flexibility when implementing it in your apps. As a result, we are now making all the on-device APIs available in a new ...