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, as shown in the following screenshot, and switching back from Packages to Android:

Figure 2.13 Adding Assets Folder to a new project

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