Introduction

This app is a clone of the popular app ClipDrop, which allows you to remove the background from an image in real-time. This app was developed in Kotlin and utilizes the ClipDrop API to perform the background removal.

Features

Take a picture using your camera
Remove the background from the image in real-time
Save the resulting image to your device
Send the resulting image to a Python GUI app built with tkinter

Demo

Please check out the tweet here to view a video demo of the project.

Prerequisites

Android Studio
An API key for the ClipDrop API (sign up for one here)
A Python environment with Flask installed

Setup

Clone the repository and open the project in Android Studio: https://github.com/koushikjoshi/ClipDropClone
Create a file called keys.xml in the app/src/main/res/values directory of the project
In keys.xml, add the following code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="api_key">YOUR_API_KEY_HERE</string>
</resources>

Replace YOUR_API_KEY_HERE with your actual ClipDrop API key
Run the app on an emulator or device

Usage

Tap the "Take Picture" button to open your camera
Take a picture of an object with a clear background
The app will automatically remove the background in real-time
Tap the "Save" button to save the resulting image to your device
Click on the "send" button to send it to your PC.

Notes

Make sure the Python app app.py is running before attempting to send the image
The Python app must be on the same network as the device running the Android app

Built With

Android Studio - The mobile development platform used
Kotlin - The programming language used to build the android app
Python - Programming language used to build the Flask app
ClipDrop API - The API used to remove the background from the images

Libraries:

Python:

Python Flask - to communicate between the app and the PC
PIL

Android:

Retrofit - for API calls
OkHttp3: Used as the HTTP client for Retrofit.
Gson: Used for serialization and deserialization of the API response.

ClipDropClone

Install / Use

README