Steve Troughton-SmithAug 13, 2025

Trying out GPT-5's Agents feature: I gave it a screenshot of Broadcasts on iPad, and asked it to recreate it using Jetpack Compose using Material Design on Android. It built a whole Android Studio project and gave me back a zip file — it didn't run out of the box, but with a little bit of project settings tweaking…

Well, it gave me this. Based on a screenshot. In a first pass

Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithAug 13, 2025

So how about a second pass, and a third pass, with a little bit of guidance?

Remember, I handed it a screenshot. I didn't show it my app in action, nor did I give it any code to start with.

This stuff is incredible — yes I know you people use Claude or whatever to do the same thing every day 😅

Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithAug 13, 2025
It now adapts down to a tab bar on a phone layout. Clown colors aside, this is getting pretty interesting
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithAug 13, 2025
Cleaning up the theme colors and system area handling, this gives me a pretty good prototype of what a 'Broadcasts' might look like on Android
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I know absolutely nothing about Kotlin or Jetpack Compose, and barely know my way around Android Studio, so all of this was brought up from zero, and edited over multiple passes, by GPT-5. Just another tool in the toolbox
Aug 13, 2025 at 5:09pmIvory for iOS
Show threadAdam Aug 13, 2025
@stroughtonsmith I tried something similar recently but I was not given the option to download a zip file. Only to copy paste code. Needless to say it didn’t work for me. 😢
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithAug 13, 2025
@Adam try the new Agent button/mode
Show threadEmídio CunhaAug 14, 2025
@stroughtonsmith I use ChatGPT integration with VSCode and tell it to edit single files at a time, often with sub tasks but sometimes pasting an iOS screenshot and have it build a Flutter version, and it’s very effective… we’re all becoming code reviewers.
Show threadNaituwAug 15, 2025
@stroughtonsmith Welcome to the vibe coding world😁