Google's ML Kit GenAI Image Description for Flutter #

A Flutter plugin to use Google's ML Kit GenAI Image Description API to generate descriptions for images.

PLEASE READ THIS before continuing or posting a new issue:

• Google's ML Kit was build only for mobile platforms: iOS and Android apps. Web or any other platform is not supported, you can request support for those platform to Google in their repo.

• This plugin is not sponsored or maintained by Google. The authors are developers excited about Machine Learning that wanted to expose Google's native APIs to Flutter.

• Google's ML Kit APIs are only developed natively for iOS and Android. This plugin uses Flutter Platform Channels as explained here.

Requirements #

Android #

• minSdkVersion: 26
• targetSdkVersion: 35
• compileSdkVersion: 35

Note: This API is currently only available on Android. iOS support may be added in the future.

Usage #

Image Description #

Create an instance of ImageDescriber

final imageDescriber = ImageDescriber();

Check feature status

final status = await imageDescriber.checkFeatureStatus();
if (status == FeatureStatus.downloadable) {
  await imageDescriber.downloadFeature(
    onDownloadCompleted: () {
      // Start image description
    },
  );
} else if (status == FeatureStatus.available) {
  // Start image description
}

Process image

final imageData = {
  'type': 'file',
  'path': '/path/to/image.jpg',
};
final description = await imageDescriber.runInference(imageData);
print('Description: $description');

Release resources with close()

imageDescriber.close();

Example app #

Find the example app here.

Contributing #

Contributions are welcome. In case of any problems look at existing issues, if you cannot find anything related to your problem then open an issue. Create an issue before opening a pull request for non trivial fixes. In case of trivial fixes open a pull request directly.