showcase of progressive Android apps

Posted by Thomas Ezan, Sr Developer Relation Engineer

With the arrival of Generative AI, Android builders now have entry to capabilities that have been beforehand out of attain. As an illustration, now you can simply add picture captioning to your app with none laptop imaginative and prescient data.

With the upcoming launch of the steady model of VertexAI in Firebase in just a few weeks (obtainable in Beta Since Google I/O), you can effortlessly incorporate the capabilities of Gemini 1.5 Flash and Gemini 1.5 Professional into your app. The inference runs on Google’s servers, making these capabilities accessible to any machine with an web connection.

A number of Android builders have already begun leveraging this know-how. Let’s discover a few of their creations.

Generate your meals for the week

The staff behind Meal Planner, a meal planner and purchasing checklist administration app, is leveraging Gemini 1.5 Flash to create unique meal plans. Primarily based on the consumer’s food plan, the variety of individuals you’re cooking for and any meals allergy symptoms or intolerances, the app routinely creates a meal plan for the chosen week.

For every dish, the mannequin lists components and portions, considering the variety of parts. It additionally offers directions on methods to put together it. The app routinely generates a purchasing checklist for the week primarily based on the ingredient checklist for every meal.

To allow dependable processing of the mannequin’s response and to combine it within the app, the staff leveraged Gemini’s JSON mode. They specified responseMimeType = “utility/json” within the mannequin configuration and outlined the anticipated JSON response schema within the immediate (see API documentation).

Following the launch of the meal technology characteristic, Meal Planner acquired overwhelmingly optimistic suggestions. The characteristic simplified meal planning for customers with dietary restrictions and helped cut back meals waste. Within the months after its introduction, Meal Planner skilled a 17% surge in premium customers.

Journaling whereas chatting with Leo

Just a few months in the past, the staff behind the journal app Life wished to supply an progressive technique to let their customers log entries. They created “Leo”, an AI diary assistant chatting with customers and changing conversations right into a journal entry.

To change the habits of the mannequin and the tone of its responses, the staff used system directions to outline the chatbot persona. This permits the consumer to set the habits and tone of the assistant: Decide “Skilled and formal” and the mannequin will maintain the dialog strict, choose “Pleasant and cheerful” and it’ll loosen up the dialogue with a lot of emojis!

The staff noticed a rise of consumer engagement following the launch of the characteristic.

And if you wish to know extra about how the Life builders used Gemini API of their app, we had an excellent dialog with Jomin from the staff. This dialog is a part of a brand new Android podcast sequence known as Android Construct Time, which you can additionally watch on YouTube.

Create a nickname on the fly

The HiiKER app offers offline climbing maps. The app additionally fosters a group by letting customers ranking trails and leaving feedback. However customers signing up don’t all the time add a username to their profile. To keep away from the danger of reducing the conversion charge by making username choice obligatory at signup time, the staff determined to make use of the Gemini API to recommend distinctive usernames primarily based on the consumer’s nation or space.

To generate unique usernames, the staff set a excessive temperature worth and performed with the top-Ok and top-P values to extend the creativity of the mannequin.

This AI-assisted characteristic led to a major carry within the proportion of customers with “full” profiles contributing to a optimistic influence on engagement and retention.

It’s time to construct!

Generative AI remains to be a really new area and we’re simply beginning to have easy accessibility to those capabilities for Android. From enabling superior personalization, creating pleasant interactive experiences or simplifying signup, you might need distinctive challenges that you’re attempting to unravel as an Android app developer. It’s a nice time to begin these challenges as alternatives that generative AI might help you sort out!

You may study extra concerning the superior options of the Gemini Cloud fashions, discover an introduction to generative AI for Android builders, and get began with Vertex AI in Firebase documentation.

To study extra about AI on Android, try different assets now we have obtainable throughout AI in Android Highlight Week.

Use #AndroidAI hashtag to share your creations or suggestions on social media, and be part of us on the forefront of the AI revolution!