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🚀 New release of Android Remote Control MCP is out — the MCP server that runs on your phone and gives your AI agent the ability to use any app you want!

Grab it here: https://github.com/danielealbano/android-remote-control-mcp/releases/tag/v1.10.0

Finally the new version v1.10.0 is released with signed APKs and with keys registered with Google 🎉 no more debug-build workaround!

My favorite part of this release: apps that used to be impossible to automate now work. 🔓 Some apps flag basically their entire screen as "sensitive" (eg. the GitHub app), so the agent saw… an empty screen! This release makes the server a first-class accessibility tool, so those apps finally show up and can be driven like any other.

In addition now I started to release a GSM-free build which will work great n the devices without the Google Mobile Services.

In addition a few minor improvements: browser-based MCP clients like the MCP Inspector can now connect (CORS support), an important security hardening you'll want to update for 🔒, and the latest Netty HTTP/2 fixes.

What can you actually do with it? Since it drives the real apps on your phone the way you would, you can point your agent at things that normally wouldn't be possible to automate or would be very hard: planning a trip? Ask the agent to use skyscanner to search a flight for you! Check out the demo!

Let it handle the tedious parts! If there's an app for it, your agent can drive it ... you just have to ask!

🚀 New release of Android Remote Control MCP is out - the MCP server that runs on your phone and give Claude the ability to use any app you want!

You can get it from:
https://github.com/danielealbano/android-remote-control-mcp/releases/tag/v1.8.0

What can you actually do with it? Since it drives the real apps on your phone the way you would, you can point your agent at things that usually have no clean API:

• Planning a trip? Have it compare hotel and b&b ratings, check flight prices while skipping the painful departure times, and work out how far each option sits from the airport.
• Going on a road trip? Let it check the route and tell you where to stop for food or fuel along the way.
• Hand it your LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok or WhatsApp and let it deal with the tedious parts! If there's an app for it, your agent can drive it, you just have to ask.

Now you can use it straight from Claude Desktop / Claude.ai, no Claude Code or custom client required.

To integrate it easily you can enable cloudflare (free) or ngrok, you need to disable the authentication token, and then you can setup a custom connector in Claude.ai / Claude Desktop. Next release will ship an OAuth2 authentication flow to protect the access.

The other big one: much better WebView / Chrome support!

Browsers explode into thousands of accessibility nodes (vs ~50–100 for a typical app), which is brutal on the context window. This release adds a compression layer that collapses those nodes by up to 60%.
In one case a page that took ~100k tokens just to open dropped to ~40k!
It's still a lot next to the ~1k an average native app needs but a huge leap, and it finally makes WebView-heavy and hybrid apps practical to automate.

Of course built 95% with Claude Code (Opus 4.6 / Opus 4.7 and Opus 4.8) and, to close the loop, this very post was published to Reddit by Claude itself, driving the Reddit app on my phone through Android Remote Control 🤖