Basic knowledge of Android development in Kotlin.

Android Studio Emulator or a physical Android device.

A recent version of Android Studio (v4.1.2+).

ML Kit Object Detection and Tracking API.

How to integrate ML Kit SDK into your Android application.

In the end, you should see something similar to the image on the right.

Then the user will pick an object that they want to search for in our product database. Your app will use the ML Kit Object Detection and Tracking API to detect objects in a given image.

In this codelab, you're going to build an Android app with ML Kit.

You can learn about the remaining steps, including how to build a product search backend with Vision API Product Search, in the learning pathway. You will use ML Kit Object Detection and Tracking to build this feature.

In this codelab, you will learn the first step to build a product image search feature: how to detect objects in images and let the user choose the objects they want to search for. It is part of a learning pathway that teaches you how to build a product image search feature into a mobile app. Have you seen the Google Lens demo, where you can point your phone camera at an object and find where you can buy it online? If you want to learn how you can add the same feature to your app, then this codelab is for you.

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