GoogleMobileVision.Bindings.iOS

A wrapping framework to use GoogleMobileVision in a Bindings project in Xamarin

I've struggled with this quite a bit over the last couple of days, but I just got things working as I wanted it for my project. I created a framework in Xcode, using cocoapods for the GoogleMobileVision dependencies and then wrapped the functionality in an objective-c class named GoogleMobileVisionWrapper. I've only implemented text recognition, but I guess adding more functionality should be trivial.

Just run build_and_copy_framework.sh from the project directory to build the frameworks and add them to the GoogleMobileVision.Xamarin.Bindings project. Then just add the Bindings project to your Xamarin project and reference it from the iOS target. Using the library is easy. Just use GoogleMobileVisionWrapper().DetectTextInImage(image)

Binary size

Worth noting is that the build script creates fat frameworks. So make sure you do proper linking in your project to decrease the binary size.

Help

I'm by no means fluent in bindings, so feel free to add pull request.