Using Python Code in Android Studio With Chaquopy
Whenever we think of android app development android studio is the first tool that pops up in our minds. It is an environment that includes various tools for developing android applications. Java or Kotlin is the default language that android studio supports for development. However, most of the machine learning/deep learning projects are developed in Python. Usually, most of the code has to be rewritten in Java or Kotlin for deployment as a mobile app. Hence most of us who have worked on developing machine learning-based mobile apps might have wondered at some point if there was a way to directly use the python code and create an android app.
There are frameworks like Kivy and Beeware which explicitly use python for android app development but these frameworks are recent and not as maturated as an android studio in terms of functionality. Hence in this blog, we would learn about a framework called Chaquopy that allows us to use python code in android studio.
Prerequisites
In order to understand this blog properly the reader should have knowledge of below domains :
- Android Studio
- Basic Java
- Object detection with python
