ML Kit encompasses all the existing Google offerings for machine learning on mobile. It bundles the Google Cloud Vision API, TensorFlow Lite, and the Android Neural Networks API together in a single SDK, as shown:
ML Kit enables developers to utilize machine learning in their mobile applications for both Android and iOS apps, in a very easy way. Inference can be carried out by invoking APIs that are either on-device or on-cloud.
The advantages of on-device APIs are that they work completely offline, and are more secure as no data is sent to the cloud. By contrast, on-cloud APIs do require network connectivity, and do send data off-device, but allow for greater accuracy.
ML Kit offers APIs covering the following machine learning scenarios that may be required by mobile application developers:
- Image labeling
- Text recognition
- Landmark...
