Prabhakar Thota

@prabhakarthota

Mobile Engineer, UI/UX. I believe in the quote, "Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things." Happy Coding :)

Bengaluru, IndiaJoined June 2021

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Mobile Engineer, UI/UX. I believe in the quote which says "Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things." Happy Coding :)

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PTPrabhakar Thotaprabhakarthota.devFeb 28 · 13 min read

I Set Up My AI Coding Tool Properly for an Android Project - Here's What Changed

Whether you use Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, or Codex — most Android developers are burning tokens and getting inconsistent results. I fixed that with 28 files. I've been building Apps Manage

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PTPrabhakar Thotaprabhakarthota.devFeb 22 · 4 min read

Prompt Engineering → Context Engineering: An Android Engineer's Perspective

As Android engineers, we understand one thing very clearly: Behavior is driven by state. Now apply that to AI. For a while, we treated LLMs like simple input-output functions: Input (Prompt) → Model

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PTPrabhakar Thotaprabhakarthota.devFeb 13 · 3 min read

Designing a Scalable OTA Strategy in Android Applications

In Android development, OTA (Over-The-Air) updates are often misunderstood as simply “publishing a new build to the Play Store.” At scale, OTA is not a release action.It is an architectural control system. In production-grade applications - especiall...

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PTPrabhakar Thotaprabhakarthota.devMay 30, 2022 · 2 min read

Send WhatsApp Messages using the Android SDK

Before jumping into using the SDK, let's follow the below steps to create the project on developers.facebook.com to claim the phone number id. Step 1: Create a WhatsApp App Give your app a descriptive name (do not use any Facebook trademarks like Wh...

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PTPrabhakar Thotaprabhakarthota.devMay 19, 2022 · 2 min read

Google code scanner API -scanning codes without camera permission

The Google code scanner API provides a complete solution for scanning codes without requiring your app to request camera permission, while preserving user privacy. This is accomplished by delegating the task of scanning the code to Google Play servic...

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I Set Up My AI Coding Tool Properly for an Android Project - Here's What Changed

Prompt Engineering → Context Engineering: An Android Engineer's Perspective

Designing a Scalable OTA Strategy in Android Applications

Send WhatsApp Messages using the Android SDK

Google code scanner API -scanning codes without camera permission

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I Set Up My AI Coding Tool Properly for an Android Project - Here's What Changed

Prompt Engineering → Context Engineering: An Android Engineer's Perspective

Designing a Scalable OTA Strategy in Android Applications

Send WhatsApp Messages using the Android SDK

Google code scanner API -scanning codes without camera permission