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Running Gemma 3 1B on an Android phone as the brain of an autonomous agent — it handles ~60-70% of requests with zero network

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I built an Android agent that uses a Gemma 3 1B model running locally on the phone as its primary brain. No API calls for simple tasks — it works in airplane mode. The agent has 30 tools (flashlight, clipboard, SMS, app launch, web search, navigation through any app via the accessibility tree). For…

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  1. 2026-09-05 16:05 · r/LocalLLM
    Running Gemma 3 1B on an Android phone as the brain of an autonomous agent — it handles ~60-70% of requests with zero network

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