Breakage caused by removal of "Arduino_TensorFlowLite" library from Library Manager

[per1234]

The "Arduino_TensorFlowLite" library dependency of these tutorials was removed from Library Manager at the request of the TensorFlow Lite Micro maintainers (arduino/library-registry#1748).

That removal impacts this project in several ways:

Documentation

The installation instructions specify installation of the library from Library Manager:

https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoTensorFlowLiteTutorials/blob/master/GestureToEmoji/exercises/exercise1.md#arduino-libraries

Install the following Arduino libraries using the Library manager:

• TensorFlow Lite library (search for "Arduino_TensorFlowLite")

This is no longer possible.

TensorFlow's library must be installed manually. The library's documentation provides instructions:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tflite-micro-arduino-examples#how-to-install

Code

TensorFlow's library does not contain the file tensorflow/lite/version.h, so the code that contains an #include directive for this header no longer compiles:

home/runner/work/ArduinoTensorFlowLiteTutorials/ArduinoTensorFlowLiteTutorials/GestureToEmoji/ArduinoSketches/IMU_Classifier/IMU_Classifier.ino:28:10: fatal error: tensorflow/lite/version.h: No such file or directory
   #include <tensorflow/lite/version.h>
            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  compilation terminated.

CI

The repository contains a GitHub Actions workflow that provides a "smoke test" on relevant changes to the project by compiling the sketches:

https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoTensorFlowLiteTutorials/blob/master/.github/workflows/compile-sketches.yml

The workflow is configured to install the dependency from Library Manager, which now fails:

Running command: /home/runner/bin/arduino-cli lib install Arduino_TensorFlowLite 
   Error installing Arduino_TensorFlowLite: Library 'Arduino_TensorFlowLite' not found

[whubaichuan]

@per1234 Hi, thanks for you finding the same problem. In my project which needs to use Arduino_TensorFlowLite
I just comment the code below:

\\#include <tensorflow/lite/version.h>

and it works. It seems no harm to the whole project.

Would you like to have a try here? Looking forward to your feedback.

[per1234]

@BenjaminDannegard this information might be of interest to you ^^