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Intelligent Mobile Projects with TensorFlow

By : Jeff Tang
Book Image

Intelligent Mobile Projects with TensorFlow

By: Jeff Tang

Overview of this book

As a developer, you always need to keep an eye out and be ready for what will be trending soon, while also focusing on what's trending currently. So, what's better than learning about the integration of the best of both worlds, the present and the future? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is widely regarded as the next big thing after mobile, and Google's TensorFlow is the leading open source machine learning framework, the hottest branch of AI. This book covers more than 10 complete iOS, Android, and Raspberry Pi apps powered by TensorFlow and built from scratch, running all kinds of cool TensorFlow models offline on-device: from computer vision, speech and language processing to generative adversarial networks and AlphaZero-like deep reinforcement learning. You’ll learn how to use or retrain existing TensorFlow models, build your own models, and develop intelligent mobile apps running those TensorFlow models. You'll learn how to quickly build such apps with step-by-step tutorials and how to avoid many pitfalls in the process with lots of hard-earned troubleshooting tips.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Adding TensorFlow to your own Android app

It turns out that adding TensorFlow to your own Android app is easier than iOS. Let's jump right to the steps:

  1. If you have an existing Android app, skip this. Otherwise, in Android Studio, select File | New | New Project... and accept all the defaults before clicking Finish.
  2. Open the build.gradle (Module: app) file, and add compile 'org.tensorflow:tensorflow-android:+' inside and at the end of dependencies {...};.
  3. Build the gradle file and you'll see libtensorflow_inference.so, the TensorFlow native library that Java code talks to, inside the subfolders of the location app/build/intermediates/transforms/mergeJniLibs/debug/0/lib of your app directory.
  4. If this is a new project, you can create the assets folder by first switching to Packages, then by right-mouse clicking the app and selecting New | Folder | Assets Folder...