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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.

• 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

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

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

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

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