Company
Date Published
Author
Britt Barak
Word count
1963
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Google's MLKit allows developers to easily integrate machine learning into their apps, with features like image labelling, face detection, and barcode scanning. The platform provides a simple API for common ML use cases, allowing developers to create custom models and run them on-device or in the cloud. A tutorial demonstrates how to build an app that uses MLKit's image classification feature to detect specific entities in an image, including strawberries. The tutorial covers both local (on-device) and cloud-based models, with the latter providing more accurate results but requiring a paid Firebase plan. The code for this tutorial is available on GitHub, along with information on how to get started with MLKit and other resources for learning about machine learning.