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Mobile app architecture.

Explore ways to add AI to an iOS or Android app, from a backend model call to on-device and hybrid designs. Compare connectivity, device support, data handling and evaluation needs before choosing an architecture for the first release.

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Mobile AI architecture: seven patterns and their trade-offs

Compare cloud, on-device, hybrid, caching and background-job patterns for mobile AI. Review data boundaries, device limits, failures and operating costs.

Omer Khan · 7 April 2026 · 9 min readRead the article
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