How I Built a Manhua Video App in 8 Days for $20: AI-Powered Mobile Creation

8 Days, 20 USD, One CLI: Building an Open-Source AI Manhua-Video App with Claude Code & GLM-4.7 Core question answered in one line: A backend-only engineer with zero mobile experience can ship an end-to-end “prompt-to-manhua-video” Android app in eight calendar days and spend only twenty dollars by letting a CLI coding agent write Flutter code while a cheap but powerful LLM plans every creative step. 1. Why Another AI-Video Tool? The Mobile Gap Core question this section answers: If web-based manhua-video makers already exist, why bother building a mobile-native one? Every existing product the author tried was desktop-web only, asking …