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Rohit Raj
Rohit Raj

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Cloud-First AI Is Dead. I Built a Fully Offline AI App to Prove It.

Originally published on rohitraj.tech

Google just shipped an offline AI dictation app. Android 16 runs notification summaries on-device. The "cloud-first" mentality for AI apps is dying — here's how I built a production Android app with zero network permissions using Gemma 4, LiteRT, and regex fallback.


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