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Building AudioMemo taught me that continuous audio recording is 10% MediaRecorder and 90% defending against everything that tries to stop it. Why Audio UX is Uniquely Hard on Mobile Building a screen with a list and a button is predictable. Building an app that continuously records audio is not. When I built AudioMemo — a native Android app that records audio in 30-second chunks, transcribes via OpenAI Whisper, and summarizes with GPT-4o-mini — I quickly realized that wiring up MediaRecorder was