Building offline AI-powered Android apps: MediaPipe + Gemma 3n

Yes, you can run AI models locally on your Android phone! There are many benefits to this: it improves privacy, since nothing leaves the device; it works fully offline; and it saves money on cloud-based services.

This talk is based around 5 live demos, each encouraging audience engagement. Together we will see how to build a fully-offline Android app with AI capabilities:

- How to run an entire LLM on your phone, thanks to MediaPipe + Gemma
- How the latest Gemma 3n allows multi-modal inputs
- How AI can tell us what's in a photo
- How gesture recognition works on a live video stream
- How models can even generate images on-device
...and many other things MediaPipe can do

Tom is a Google Developer Expert in Android who builds great apps for people, helping them to build great app businesses. With a commercial focus and a wide knowledge of many technologies (both back- and front-end).
A regular conference speaker on topics related to Android, and app startups more generally. He also provide mentorship to those looking to start app businesses.