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How we built an on-device face swap app for Android with open-weight ML models (no cloud uploads)

When we started building FacePika, we had one hard constraint: users' photos and videos should never leave their phone. Most face swap tools today upload your media to a remote server, run the model in the cloud, and send the result back — that works, but it creates obvious privacy tradeoffs. We wa…

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  1. 2026-10-17 10:55 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    How we built an on-device face swap app for Android with open-weight ML models (no cloud uploads)

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