Android AI/ML (ML Kit, TFLite, MediaPipe, Gemini Nano)

Acknowledgement: Shared by Peter Bamuhigire, techguypeter.com, +256 784 464178.

Use When

• Adding on-device AI features to an Android app (OCR, face, barcode, language, pose, gestures)
• Shipping a custom TFLite model inside the APK for offline inference
• Using Gemini Nano on Pixel 8 Pro+ / Android 14+ for summarisation or rewriting
• Streaming cloud LLM tokens (Claude/GPT) into a Jetpack Compose UI

Do Not Use When

• The model needs to run cloud-side only — load ai-llm-integration instead
• Vision task is simple detection over static images — a plain ImageAnalysis may suffice
• iOS parity — load ios-ai-ml for CoreML/Vision/NaturalLanguage equivalents

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