Mobile Next - MCP server for Mobile Development and Automation | iOS, Android, Simulator, Emulator, and Real Devices

This is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables scalable mobile automation, development through a platform-agnostic interface, eliminating the need for distinct iOS or Android knowledge. You can run it on emulators, simulators, and real devices (iOS and Android). This server allows Agents and LLMs to interact with native iOS/Android applications and devices through structured accessibility snapshots or coordinate-based taps based on screenshots.

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🚀 Mobile MCP Roadmap: Building the Future of Mobile

Join us on our journey as we continuously enhance Mobile MCP! Check out our detailed roadmap to see upcoming features, improvements, and milestones. Your feedback is invaluable in shaping the future of mobile automation.

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Main use cases

How we help to scale mobile automation:

• 📲 Native app automation (iOS and Android) for testing or data-entry scenarios.

• 📝 Scripted flows and form interactions without manually controlling simulators/emulators or real devices (iPhone, Samsung, Google Pixel etc)

• 🧭 Automating multi-step user journeys driven by an LLM

• 👆 General-purpose mobile application interaction for agent-based frameworks

• 🤖 Enables agent-to-agent communication for mobile automation usecases, data extraction

Main Features

• 🚀 Fast and lightweight: Uses native accessibility trees for most interactions, or screenshot based coordinates where a11y labels are not available.

• 🤖 LLM-friendly: No computer vision model required in Accessibility (Snapshot).

• 🧿 Visual Sense: Evaluates and analyses what’s actually rendered on screen to decide the next action. If accessibility data or view-hierarchy coordinates are unavailable, it falls back to screenshot-based analysis.

• 📊 Deterministic tool application: Reduces ambiguity found in purely screenshot-based approaches by relying on structured data whenever possible.

• 📺 Extract structured data: Enables you to extract structred data from anything visible on screen.

Related MCP server: MCP Appium Server

🔧 Available MCP Tools

For detailed implementation and parameter specifications, see src/server.ts

Device Management

• mobile_list_available_devices - List all available devices (simulators, emulators, and real devices)

• mobile_get_screen_size - Get the screen size of the mobile device in pixels

• mobile_get_orientation - Get the current screen orientation of the device

• mobile_set_orientation - Change the screen orientation (portrait/landscape)

App Management

• mobile_list_apps - List all installed apps on the device

• mobile_launch_app - Launch an app using its package name

• mobile_terminate_app - Stop and terminate a running app

• mobile_install_app - Install an app from file (.apk, .ipa, .app, .zip)

• mobile_uninstall_app - Uninstall an app using bundle ID or package name

Screen Interaction

• mobile_take_screenshot - Take a screenshot to understand what's on screen

• mobile_save_screenshot - Save a screenshot to a file

• mobile_list_elements_on_screen - List UI elements with their coordinates and properties

• mobile_click_on_screen_at_coordinates - Click at specific x,y coordinates

• mobile_double_tap_on_screen - Double-tap at specific coordinates

• mobile_long_press_on_screen_at_coordinates - Long press at specific coordinates

• mobile_swipe_on_screen - Swipe in any direction (up, down, left, right)

Input & Navigation

• mobile_type_keys - Type text into focused elements with optional submit

• mobile_press_button - Press device buttons (HOME, BACK, VOLUME_UP/DOWN, ENTER, etc.)

• mobile_open_url - Open URLs in the device browser

Platform Support

• iOS: Simulators and real devices via native accessibility and WebDriverAgent

• Android: Emulators and real devices via ADB and UI Automator

• Cross-platform: Unified API works across both iOS and Android

🏗️ Mobile MCP Architecture

📚 Wiki page

More details in our wiki page for setup, configuration and debugging related questions.

Installation and configuration

Standard config works in most of the tools:

To setup Cline, just add the json above to your MCP settings file.

More in our wiki

Use the Claude Code CLI to add the Mobile MCP server:

Click the button to install:

Or install manually:

Go to Cursor Settings -> MCP -> Add new MCP Server. Name to your liking, use command type with the command npx -y @mobilenext/mobile-mcp@latest. You can also verify config or add command like arguments via clicking Edit.

Use the Gemini CLI to add the Mobile MCP server:

Click the button to install:

Or install manually:

Go to Advanced settings -> Extensions -> Add custom extension. Name to your liking, use type STDIO, and set the command to npx -y @mobilenext/mobile-mcp@latest. Click "Add Extension".

Open Qodo Gen chat panel in VSCode or IntelliJ → Connect more tools → + Add new MCP → Paste the standard config above.

Click Save.

Read more in our wiki! 🚀

🛠️ How to Use 📝

After adding the MCP server to your IDE/Client, you can instruct your AI assistant to use the available tools. For example, in Cursor's agent mode, you could use the prompts below to quickly validate, test and iterate on UI intereactions, read information from screen, go through complex workflows. Be descriptive, straight to the point.

✨ Example Prompts

Workflows

You can specifiy detailed workflows in a single prompt, verify business logic, setup automations. You can go crazy:

Search for a video, comment, like and share it.

Download a successful step counter app, register, setup workout and 5-star the app

Search in Substack, read, highlight, comment and save an article

Reserve a workout class, set timer

Find a local event, setup calendar event

Check weather forecast and send a Whatsapp/Telegram/Slack message

• Schedule a meeting in Zoom and share invite via email

More prompt examples can be found here.

Prerequisites

What you will need to connect MCP with your agent and mobile devices:

• Xcode command line tools

• Android Platform Tools

• node.js v22+

• MCP supported foundational models or agents, like Claude MCP, OpenAI Agent SDK, Copilot Studio

Simulators, Emulators, and Real Devices

When launched, Mobile MCP can connect to:

• iOS Simulators on macOS/Linux

• Android Emulators on Linux/Windows/macOS

• iOS or Android real devices (requires proper platform tools and drivers)

Make sure you have your mobile platform SDKs (Xcode, Android SDK) installed and configured properly before running Mobile Next Mobile MCP.

Running in "headless" mode on Simulators/Emulators

When you do not have a real device connected to your machine, you can run Mobile MCP with an emulator or simulator in the background.

For example, on Android:

1. Start an emulator (avdmanager / emulator command).

2. Run Mobile MCP with the desired flags

On iOS, you'll need Xcode and to run the Simulator before using Mobile MCP with that simulator instance.

• xcrun simctl list

• xcrun simctl boot "iPhone 16"

Thanks to all contributors ❤️

We appreciate everyone who has helped improve this project.