I’ve been building Buddy, a free, open source (Apache 2.0) Android app. You type or say what you want in a floating bubble, and an AI agent reads the screen, taps and types through your apps to do it.
- Your choice of agent: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Antigravity or Grok, running inside the app (Alpine Linux via proot) on your own plan. OpenCode’s free models need no account.
- No root, adb or PC: it reads the screen and taps through the accessibility service.
- Asks first: before anything is sent, posted, bought or deleted. It pauses when you touch the screen and never types passwords or payment details.
- Builds apps: with Linux tools on, it builds real APKs on the phone. This week I drew a maze on a paper towel, took a photo, and it made it a tilt game. The first build crashed on launch; it found the bug and fixed it.
To be upfront:
- What the agent reads on your screen goes to the AI service you pick.
- It’s early (2.2), tested most on a OnePlus 12 with Android 16.
- It’s not on Play (Google rejected the accessibility use), so it’s an APK from GitHub releases, built by GitHub Actions from the source.
Source and releases: github.com/ghorbelhamdi/buddy-android
Happy to answer questions here.
Why would anyone in the right state of mind allow that shit to control your phone??
Not a privacy invasion, at all. And you are abusing the accessibility features too? I’m proud of you.
Token work offloading. Unethical.
Let Al have full access to your contacts and the first most likely device to have pictures of your genitals.
No.
People are so mean these days, show some support
Name a single good reason that I should support this
Everything related to AI gets down voted. Controversial at best.
Curious why. Seems people vote against datacenters in their vicinity, against the flood of self-promote by AI agents in the remaining somewhat human corners of the internet, against the flood of dubious vibe-coded projects which for some reason all have the same description that starts with “I built …”
