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Day 10 of building an AI agent that controls a phone.

A developer building an AI agent that controls a phone is replacing screenshots with direct reading of the Android UI tree. The approach provides exact coordinates in under one second, overcoming the slowness of OCR and the fragility of template matching across devices.

read1 min views13 publishedJun 25, 2026

Project Log #10: I'm Ditching Screenshots. Here's Why. Okeke Chukwudubem Okeke Chukwudubem Okeke Chukwudubem Follow Jun 25 Project Log #10: I'm Ditching Screenshots. Here's Why.

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