Firebase ML Kit: Build a Face Features-Detecting App With Face Detection API and Android Things

This article describes how to build a face features detecting app using the face detection API (Firebase ML Kit) and Android Things. The idea of this article comes from the Google project called “Android Things expression flower." This project idea is detecting face characteristics (or face classification) using machine vision based on Firebase ML Kit. Moreover, this project displays the face characteristics using an LCD display and some emoticons.

To build this project, you will need: