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.

  • Canuck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    4 hours ago

    Excellent for local models running via OpenCode and helping with UAT on Android. Well done. What else is on your roadmap for this? Will you support Watch/TV/XR? F-Droid might take this.

    • ghorbelhamdi@lemdro.idOPEnglish
      11·
      4 hours ago

      Thanks, and thanks for the crosspost! Local models already work: in Settings you can add a custom OpenAI-compatible address (llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio on your network) and use it with OpenCode. It works best with models that are good at tool calling, since everything goes through phone tools.

      Other devices: it’s built for phones, but someone already forked it to run on a Nintendo Switch with Android, with Joy-Con navigation: https://github.com/Lendss/buddy-switch. So other Android devices are clearly possible, I just haven’t tested watches, TVs or XR myself.

      F-Droid: good timing. Buddy now builds all its native parts (proot, talloc and friends) from source in CI, with no prebuilt binaries in the repo, which was the main thing in the way. So an F-Droid build should be doable now. Until then, releases are on GitHub and the app updates itself.

      • Shatur@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        51 minutes ago

        Local models already work: in Settings you can add a custom OpenAI-compatible address (llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio on your network)

        You should’ve mentioned this in the readme 🙂 I’ll check it out!