FR: Support Gemini nano on Pixel 8, 9, and 10

[theyapps]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
For pixel phones the ai coprocessor would be much faster and more efficient than the processor.

Describe the solution you'd like
Use ml-kit-genai api to interface with Gemini nano model on pixel npu. https://developer.android.com/ai/gemini-nano/ml-kit-genai

Describe alternatives you've considered
Current CPU/GPU implementations and cloud models.

Additional context
N/A

[theyapps]

Note: If you need assistance with testing please reach out I will be available for such help.

[AnsahMohammad]

Note: If you need assistance with testing please reach out I will be available for such help.

Thanks!, really appreciate that.
could you let me know which device you are using? I have implemented a basic AI Core implementation. however, I am unable to verify it on my Pixel 8 Pro as the system reports that AI Core is not found.

I can make a beta release for testing to see if this works for other folks.

[theyapps]

I have a pixel 10 pro, and it is an iced over weekend so would be great timing!

[AnsahMohammad]

Thanks for the reply, cool, pixel 10 pro defenitely has AI Core, I will push a beta release tomorrow IST, and will ping here once that's available along with the steps for testing.

Thanks :)

[theyapps]

Thanks, looking forward to it! From: Ansah Mohammad ***@***.***> To: ***@***.***> Cc: "Ryan ***@***.***>, ***@***.***> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:27:36 -0600 Subject: Re: [AnsahMohammad/shots-studio] FR: Support Gemini nano on Pixel 8, 9, and 10 (Issue #164) AnsahMohammad left a comment #164 (comment) Thanks for the reply, cool, pixel 10 pro defenitely has AI Core, I will push a beta release tomorrow IST, and will ping here once that's available along with steps for testing. Thanks :) — Reply to this email directly, #164 (comment) , or https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAADYUOHLLSCUBVXRBLN62T4IPBSRAVCNFSM6AAAAACP2DQTM6VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZTOOJVGM4DOMJWGM . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

[AnsahMohammad]

Hi, I've made a release a1.9.77. Please test if the AI Core works or not.

If you would like to receive future beta updates directly within the app, go to Settings > Advanced Settings and toggle Beta Testing to ON.

How to Test

To help us verify this feature, please follow these steps:

Enable AI Core: Go to AI Settings > AI Providers and toggle AI Core to ON.
Try to see if you are able to enable, and try processing images with it.

NOTE :
AI Core for now only support image description, so it won't be able to auto categorise images into collection.

[theyapps]

Working on troubleshooting further, bit so far I get the following error.

App list shows AICore installed.

[AnsahMohammad]

Oops :/. Thanks for the update. Yeah that looks like something unexpected. It's hard to do debug since I'm blind here.
We can wait till kekko7072/flutter_local_ai implements an API for this. It might take a few more weeks until this is implemented.

Also point to note : Using gemini nano, we'll only be able to describe the image, other features like link extraction, auto categorisation, tagging won't work etc.

[theyapps]

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---- On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:53:37 -0600 ***@***.*** wrote ---- AnsahMohammad left a comment #164 (comment) Oops :/. Thanks for the update. Yeah that looks like something unexpected. It's hard to do debug since I'm blind here. We can wait till kekko7072/flutter_local_ai implements an API for this. It might take a few more weeks until this is implemented. Also point to note : Using gemini nano, we'll only be able to describe the image, other features like link extraction, auto categorisation, tagging won't work etc. — Reply to this email directly, #164 (comment) , or https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAADYUKT7VC3Z2VPDZS44334ITKHDAVCNFSM6AAAAACP2DQTM6VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZTOOJWG44TKNZXGM . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

[AnsahMohammad]

Adding the issue here to track the progress : kekko7072/flutter_local_ai#6