// Hacker Noon · 28 May 2026

Building a Hybrid Mobile AI Vision Assistant With LiteRT, Gemini Nano, and Vertex AI

Cloud-based Vision-Language Models are too slow and brittle for real-time accessibility tools. This article breaks down a resilient, three-tier hybrid architecture on Android that uses local LiteRT object detection for immediate physical safety, on-device SLMs for offline text parsing, and cloud Ver...

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