InProAndroidDevbyPankaj Rai 🇮🇳·May 21Beyond the Prompt: Inside Google’s New Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Android and KotlinFor the past few years, mobile AI integration has mostly looked like an advanced game of telephone: an app takes user text, ships it off to…A response icon1A response icon1
Pankaj Rai 🇮🇳·May 11Beyond SQL: Why Your Android App Needs a Graph Database (Part 2)Welcome back to our series on modern mobile architecture. In [Part 1] (link), we explored the paradigm shift of moving Graph Databases…
InProAndroidDevbyPankaj Rai 🇮🇳·May 9Beyond SQL: Why Your Next Android App Needs an On-Device Graph DatabaseIf you are an Android developer, you probably have a muscle-memory relationship with SQLite. Whether you interact with it directly, wrap it…
InProAndroidDevbyPankaj Rai 🇮🇳·Mar 4Revolutionizing Privacy: A Deep Dive into the Android 17 Contact PickerFor years, the Android “Contacts” permission has been a point of friction for both developers and users. To pick a single phone number, an…A response icon1A response icon1
Pankaj Rai 🇮🇳·Feb 22KoreDB: Inside the LSM Engine (WAL, MemTable, SSTables)Earlier we explored why I built KoreDB and why SQLite’s B-tree architecture isn’t always ideal for modern AI-native Android workloads.
Pankaj Rai 🇮🇳·Feb 21I Built a NoSQL Database in Pure Kotlin — KoreDBSQLite has been the undisputed king of mobile databases for over 20 years. It is robust, reliable, and battle-tested. It powers billions of…
Pankaj Rai 🇮🇳·Feb 11Android Gradle Plugin 9.0: Is Your Project Ready?If you’ve been browsing Android developer forums, Reddit, or X (formerly Twitter) lately, you’ve likely heard the “noise”. The Android…
InGoogle Developer ExpertsbyPankaj Rai 🇮🇳·Feb 6EmbeddingGemma: The Brain Behind Local AI SearchEmbeddingGemma is a specialized version of Google’s “Gemma” family of open-weight models, specifically designed to turn text into…
Pankaj Rai 🇮🇳·Jan 14UCP — Universal Commerce Protocol Fundamentals & ArchitectureHistorically, commerce integrations were built to render User Interfaces (UIs) for human eyes — websites and mobile apps where a human…
Pankaj Rai 🇮🇳·Dec 24, 2025The Steve Jobs “Team A” Theory: Why Mediocrity is the Greatest Risk in the Age of AIn the 1980s, Steve Jobs famously compared the computer to a “bicycle for the mind” — a tool that amplified human ability. It allowed a…
