The Cognitive Services + Xamarin Combo Challenge: Combine some Azure Cognitive Services in the most crazy ways – and pop in some additional Xamarin goodness by April 30 to get some amazing Xamarin swag!
Microsoft Cognitive Services provide a great way to get started with AI without being a machine learning or data science expert. A common favorite of cognitive services is the Custom Vision Service. The first version of this service allowed you to easily build an image classifier model that you could access either via a REST API (with an SDK available for Xamarin apps), or by downloading a model that can be run on your device using either CoreML, TensorFlow or WindowsML (we looked at using TensorFlow in an Android app in an earlier blog post).
