
Posted by
, one of our talented Google Summer of Code contributors, wrote a widely used TensorFlow Lite plugin for Flutter. The plugin was so popular that we decided to migrate it to our official repo, making it easier to maintain directly by the Google team. We are grateful to Amish for his contributions to the TensorFlow Lite Flutter plugin.
Through the efforts of developers in the community, the plugin has been updated to the latest version of TensorFlow Lite, and a collection of new features and example apps have been added, such as object detection through a live camera feed.
![]() |
So what is TensorFlow Lite? TensorFlow Lite is a way to run TensorFlow models on devices locally, supporting mobile, embedded, web, and edge devices. TensorFlow Lite’s cross-platform support and on-device performance optimizations make it a great addition to the Flutter development toolbox. Our goal with this plugin is to make it easy to integrate TensorFlow Lite models into Flutter apps across mobile platforms, with desktop support currently in development through the efforts of our developer community. Find pre-trained TensorFlow Lite models on model repos like .
Let’s take a look at how you could use the Flutter TensorFlow Lite plugin for image classification:
TensorFlow Lite Image Classification with Flutter
First you will need to install the plugin from where you can find examples for text classification, super resolution, style transfer, and more!
Additionally, we are working on a new plugin specifically for , @TensorFlow, and your developer communities!

SOCIAL SHARE CARD GENERATOR