Stop Wasting Tokens on Android Automation Most LLM-driven Android automation starts by...
Stop Wasting Tokens on Android Automation
Most LLM-driven Android automation starts by showing the model a screen.
That sounds reasonable. A human looks at the phone, decides what to tap, and taps it. Give the model the same view.
The problem is that "the same view" is expensive.
A full screenshot is expensive. A raw Android UI XML dump is also expensive, just in a quieter way. The model reads thousands of tokens of layout machinery before it reaches the handful of labels that matter:
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