Google Brings Machine Learning to Firebase with ML KIT

Google recently introduced ML KIT, a machine-learning module fully integrated in its Firebase mobile development platform and available for both iOS and Android. With this new Firebase module, Google simplifies the creation of machine-learning powered applications on mobile phones and solves some of the challenges of implementing computationally intense features on mobile devices. ML Kit allows mobile developers to create machine-learning features based on some of the models available in its deep-learning Vision API such as image labeling, OCR and face detection. ML Kit is available both for Android and iOS applications directly within the Firebase platform alongside other Google Cloud based modules such as authentication and storage. ML Kit aims at solving several of the challenges specific to mobile devices which are raised by the computationally intensive operations required for artificial intelligence.