Kmemo 2.0 is out, and the two gaps I admitted to in the first post are closed
This is a follow-up to Kmemo: a semantic cache for LLM calls that refuses to serve you the wrong answer . If you have not read it, the one-line versio…
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The Last Error Is Not Always the Root Cause: Diagnosing Android Test Failures
An Android UI test times out. Maestro reports that an element is missing. A screenshot shows a blank or half-rendered screen. It is tempting to fix th…
Why your Valhalla turn-by-turn distances are wrong: a distance-axis mismatch
Originally published on my site . I build an offline motorcycle navigation app. It routes on-device with Valhalla , snaps the rider's GPS onto the rou…
Architecting for Zero-Network Dependencies: Challenges in Offline-Only Geofencing
It happened during a quiet midday prayer. The mosque was silent, the atmosphere heavy with focus, and then—the unmistakable, high-pitched trill of a r…
Architecting a Reactive Geofencing Engine on Android Without Battery Drain
It was the middle of a Friday afternoon, and I was sitting in the back row of a lecture hall when my phone decided to perform a full-volume rendition …
Kmemo: a semantic cache for LLM calls that refuses to serve you the wrong answer
An exact-match cache misses "how do I reverse a list in Python" when it has already answered "python list reverse". A semantic cache doesn't: it embed…
Beyond the .tflite File: The Architect's Guide to Shipping High-Performance Edge AI on Android
If you think shipping AI to an Android device is as simple as dropping a .tflite file into your assets folder and calling a predict() method, you are …
Architecting Geofencing for Android: Lessons in Battery Conservation
Opening hook The silence in the lecture hall was absolute, punctuated only by the professor’s rhythmic pacing. I was deep into a complex algorithm pro…
Pixels to Predictions: Building High-Performance Edge AI Pipelines with CameraX and TFLite
You’ve built a machine learning model. It’s accurate, it’s lightweight, and it works perfectly on your desktop. But the moment you port it to an Andro…
Mastering Edge AI: How to Build High-Speed Vision Analyzers on Android
In the world of Deep Learning, there is a fundamental, almost violent tension: the computational greed of neural networks versus the strict, unforgivi…
Лучшие токены – те, которые вы не потратили: анатомия жадного LLM-бота
При анализе кода с помощью LLM всегда есть соблазн закинуть в модель всё сразу — и пусть сама разбирается. Но на больших объёмах кода стоимость и врем…
5 mistakes I made building my first Android app (and how I fixed them)
I'm not a developer. I build Android apps on evenings and weekends using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot and Claude). My latest app, ScorePop, is…
[Перевод] Тестовые фикстуры: управление зависимостями в Gradle
В многомодульных Gradle-проектах рано или поздно появляются вспомогательные классы для тестов: фабрики тестовых данных, билдеры, хелперы. Такие классы…
The 16.67ms Race: Mastering Real-Time 60 FPS Video Segmentation on Android
Imagine you are building the next generation of Augmented Reality (AR) glasses or a professional-grade video editing tool for Android. The user holds …
Architecting a background-controlled sound manager that actually survives Doze mode
It happened during a lecture. I was sitting in the front row, taking notes on my tablet, when my phone started vibrating against the wooden desk. The …
Breaking the Abstraction Tax: Mastering Custom C++ Operations for High-Performance Edge AI on Android
In the modern Android ecosystem, we have become accustomed to the incredible productivity of Kotlin and the safety of the JVM. For standard applicatio…
Stop Killing Your Battery: The Ultimate Guide to Android Edge AI Quantization (INT8 vs. FP16)
If you have ever tried to run a massive Large Language Model (LLM) or a high-resolution computer vision model directly on a mobile device, you’ve like…
Stop Guessing, Start Profiling: Mastering Edge AI Performance and Power on Android
You’ve spent weeks optimizing your machine learning model. You’ve pruned the weights, quantized the tensors, and fine-tuned the hyperparameters. On yo…
Apple locked hearing assistance inside AirPods. So I built an open-source version for any earbuds.
In 2024, Apple shipped something genuinely great: AirPods Pro can run a clinical-style hearing test and then act as hearing assistance, tuned to your …
Engineering Geofencing: Lessons in Android Battery and Location Accuracy
It happened during a quiet, solemn moment in a community prayer hall. I was sitting in the third row, reflecting, when suddenly, a high-pitched ringto…
Как мы научили ИИ-агента в JetBrains за минуту настраиваться под чужой проект
Когда подключаешь ИИ-агента к новому репозиторию, первые полчаса уходят не на код, а на объяснения. Какой стек, какие соглашения в…
Keeping background services alive: Lessons from building Muffle
Opening hook It happened during a quiet afternoon at the mosque. The imam was mid-sentence when a rhythmic, high-pitched ringtone cut through the sile…
Хватит объяснять агенту проект в каждом чате: что появилось в Veai 5.14
Когда работаешь с AI-агентом в большом проекте каждый день, накапливаются две усталости. Первая – объяснять одно и то же. …
Passwords are not necessary, a Oauth/OIDC approach
Intro It is possible to skip the burden of password management, security, encryption and password rotations. When using OAuth 2.0 with OIDC (OpenID Co…
Stable Screenshot Tests and Flow Benchmarks in KMP
In the previous post on architecture , I argued that a good KMP suite is a consequence of architecture : keep the core framework-free, depend on ports…
Агент написал код за 12 секунд и чинил его 40 минут: как я на самом деле сравнила ИИ-агентов
Все обзоры меряют одно — как быстро агент работает с кодом. Но на моём боевом Java-проекте на тысячи строк самый «быстрый» агент выдал решение за 12 с…
Keeping Android Services Alive Against OEM Battery Aggression
It was the middle of a Friday afternoon, and I was sitting in the front row of a local mosque. The room was deathly quiet, the kind of silence that am…
Skill of the week: Spring Data JDBC — качество Opus на модели за копейки
Ранее в рубрике Skill of the Week мы уже разбирали Skill для Spring Data JPA . И, что предсказуемо, в комментариях нашлись те, кто увидел в нём лишнее…
The Big Lie in Mobile Privacy (And How We Fixed It)
The Big Lie in Mobile Privacy (And How We Fixed It) If you have an Android phone, you've seen the pop-up banners asking for your permission to track y…
Why I'm building yet another UML tool in 2026
Let me get the obvious objection out of the way. PlantUML exists. Mermaid renders natively on GitHub. draw.io is free and works. Enterprise Architect,…