title: Google ML Kit: Waiting for the text recognition model to be downloaded
body: <p>[mlkit]</p>
  
  <p>I am implementing the "On-device text recognition" from the Google Machine Learning Kit for android. I followed <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/ml-kit/android/recognize-text" rel="noreferrer">this guide</a> but every time try to detect text I get the exception
  "Waiting for the text recognition model to be downloaded. Please wait."</p>
  
  <p>Obviously, waiting doesn't help, neither does making a new detection 10 seconds later.</p>
  
  <p>I have the meta tag </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta-data
      android:name="com.google.firebase.ml.vision.DEPENDENCIES"
      android:value="text" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in my manifest's app tag, which is supposed to pre-download the recognition model upon app installation.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit</strong>: I just tried the <a href="https://github.com/googlecodelabs/mlkit-android/archive/master.zip" rel="noreferrer">sample app</a>(text-recognition/final) and it has the exact same issue.</p>
  
  <p>Am I missing something or is there a bug with the API? Any help would be appreciated.</p>