We’re working on an open-source framework to automate Android apps and not just testing, but full UI workflows like tapping, swiping, scrolling, and navigating inside real apps.
Right now, it runs local and soon on emulators and cloud-based Android servers, but the goal is to let agents interact with mobile apps the same way a human would, just programmatically.
We started this because most tools in the space are:
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<li>Built for QA, not for developers or AI workflows</li>
<li>Hard to scale or integrate with modern agent frameworks</li>
<li>Not optimized for running end-to-end mobile flows in a flexible way</li>
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Curious if anyone else is exploring mobile UI automation (outside of Appium/test suites)?
Would love to swap ideas around:
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<li>Accessibility + UI element parsing</li>
<li>Latency/performance on emulator stacks</li>
<li>Cloud infra challenges for mobile automation</li>
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Always looking to learn from others pushing open-source automation forward 🙌
BTW: we are launching tomorrow at <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/droidrun-framework-for-mobile-agent" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">PH</a>, feel free to support <a href="www.droidrun.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">us</a>.
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Droidrun is an open-source framework for automating Android app UI workflows beyond traditional testing. It enables programmatic interaction with mobile apps through tapping, swiping, and navigation, designed for developers and AI workflows rather than just QA. The framework runs locally with plans for emulator and cloud support, addressing limitations in existing tools around scalability and integration with modern agent frameworks.

Meet Droidrun- the open source phone agent