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Dependencies

All versions are pinned. They were the latest stable releases when chosen and are compatible with each other as built and tested here. Updating is a deliberate change that needs the test suites re-run.

Component Version Why
Gradle (wrapper) 9.8.0 bundles Kotlin 2.4.10, matching the glass library's toolchain
Android Gradle Plugin 9.3.2 required by the glass library's artifacts
compileSdk / targetSdk / minSdk 37 / 36 / 33 newest SDK installed for compiling (a dependency requires it); Android 16 target; Android 13 floor
Kotlin / Compose compiler 2.4.10 UI shell only
Compose (JetBrains) 1.12.0 the version the glass library is built against
io.github.kyant0:backdrop, shapes 2.0.1, 1.2.1 the required Liquid Glass library (Apache-2.0). shapes must be declared explicitly
androidx.room 2.8.5 persistence, FTS4
androidx.work 2.12.0 background work
androidx.lifecycle 2.11.0 ViewModel, LiveData
OkHttp 5.5.0 networking
jsoup 1.23.2 HTML parsing (GitHub Trending, article text)
llama.cpp tag b11642 (git submodule) on-device inference; MIT
NDK / CMake 29.0.13113456 / 3.31.6 native build
JUnit / MockWebServer / kxml2 / org.json 4.13.2 / 5.5.0 / 2.3.0 / 20260814 tests

Choices worth knowing

  • Why llama.cpp and not LiteRT-LM. Chosen in the project's requirements interview. llama.cpp loads GGUF models from many publishers, has ARM-optimized kernels and a mature grammar sampler that gives strict JSON from small models. The JNI layer is about 400 lines.
  • Why FTS4 and not FTS5. Room has first-class support for FTS4 on every Android SQLite build; FTS5 would need hand-written tables, triggers and migrations.
  • Why no cloud fallback. There is none. If the model is unavailable the app says so and everything that does not need inference keeps working.
  • Liquid Glass minimum API. The effect uses AGSL runtime shaders, which need API 33 — the same as this app's minSdk.

Lint's dependency-freshness hints are disabled on purpose (see the lint {} block in app/build.gradle).