GitHub - ghorbelhamdi/buddy-android: Android AI assistant in a floating bubble: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini (Antigravity CLI) or Grok use your phone for you — read the screen, tap, type. Runs on your own plan, open source, no root, no adb, no PC.
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Android AI assistant in a floating bubble: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini (Antigravity CLI) or Grok use your phone for you — read the screen, tap, type. Runs on your own plan, open source, no...

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.

  • ghorbelhamdi@lemdro.idOPEnglish
    42·
    7 hours ago

    Fair question, so here are real ones:

    • Accessibility: with live voice (real-time, through your ChatGPT plan) you just talk to it. It does the tapping and reads things back, which helps people who can’t easily see or use a touchscreen.
    • Testing apps: it exposes the phone as an MCP server, so Claude Code or Codex can drive your app on a real device for UI testing.
    • Building apps on the phone itself: Buddy was mostly developed that way, with Claude Code running on the phone and using Buddy’s own phone tools to install and test each build.

    It asks before anything is sent or bought and stops when you touch the screen. Not for everyone, and that’s fine.