Blobs 0.3.4

Blobs 0.3.4

Blobs is an offline Android research chat app. Set up a model and the starter library once; chat, search, and saved sources then work without an internet connection. Optional travel and preparedness libraries are available in the in-app library list.

This release improves source ordering in local library search. In a fixed six-question travel retrieval check, the expected source was first in 6/6 cases, up from 4/6. Three runs on one Android 16 x86_64 emulator measured a 77 ms median per-query retrieval time and 262 ms p95; the prior build measured 70 ms and 247 ms on the same emulator. This is device-specific retrieval evidence, not a model answer-quality score or a phone-wide latency claim.

The sideload kit contains the APK, Qwen 0.6B model package, starter library, complete source archive, notices, footprint report, and checksum inventory. Its complete kit is about 0.68 GB; model and starter-library import peak is about 1.32 GB. Other catalog libraries can be downloaded separately.

Install over Blobs 0.3.3 to keep the existing app data. Releases before 0.3.3 use a different Android signing certificate and must be uninstalled before installing this version; uninstalling removes private conversations and installed packages. Export conversations first if you are upgrading from an earlier version.

Verify the files

Run verify_release.py as described in VERIFY.md, then compare the SHA-256 digest of SHA256SUMS.txt with this value:

445918822331185ada5e929f686268a2756db8600fcdadecfffd9b511f1a0538