android

Android TensorFlow support

This directory defines components (a native .so library and a Java JAR) geared towards supporting TensorFlow on Android. This includes:

• The TensorFlow Java API
• A TensorFlowInferenceInterface class that provides a smaller API surface suitable for inference and summarizing performance of model execution.

For example usage, see TensorFlowImageClassifier.java in the TensorFlow Android Demo.

For prebuilt libraries, see the nightly Android build artifacts page for a recent build.

The TensorFlow Inference Interface is also available as a JCenter package and can be included quite simply in your android project with a couple of lines in the project's build.gradle file:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile 'org.tensorflow:tensorflow-android:+'
}

This will tell Gradle to use the latest version of the TensorFlow AAR that has been released to https://bintray.com/google/tensorflow/tensorflow-android. You may replace the + with an explicit version label if you wish to use a specific release of TensorFlow in your app.

To build the libraries yourself (if, for example, you want to support custom TensorFlow operators), pick your preferred approach below:

Bazel

First follow the Bazel setup instructions described in tensorflow/examples/android/README.md

Then, to build the native TF library:

bazel build -c opt //tensorflow/contrib/android:libtensorflow_inference.so \
   --crosstool_top=//external:android/crosstool \
   --host_crosstool_top=@bazel_tools//tools/cpp:toolchain \
   --cpu=armeabi-v7a

Replacing armeabi-v7a with your desired target architecture.

The library will be located at:

bazel-bin/tensorflow/contrib/android/libtensorflow_inference.so

To build the Java counterpart:

bazel build //tensorflow/contrib/android:android_tensorflow_inference_java

You will find the JAR file at:

bazel-bin/tensorflow/contrib/android/libandroid_tensorflow_inference_java.jar

CMake

For documentation on building a self-contained AAR file with cmake, see tensorflow/contrib/android/cmake.

AssetManagerFileSystem

This directory also contains a TensorFlow filesystem supporting the Android asset manager. This may be useful when writing native (C++) code that is tightly coupled with TensorFlow. For typical usage, the library above will be sufficient.