Hello MediaPipe on Android

MediaPipe is an open source project by Google AI and it enables developers to build real time cross-platform apps for mobile (Android & iOS), desktop and Corel Edge TPU. I heard about MediaPipe recently so I installed it to try out its Android sample apps.

The MediaPipe documentation is excellent; however since it’s cross-platform, I had to parse through the doc to figure out the end to end process for Android. So in this blog post, I’m sharing the steps I took for building the MediaPipe Android “Hello World” example app — a realtime edge detection app running with GPU.