mobilerun-core-local 0.3.0

Slim async local device drivers for Android Portal and iOS Portal, extracted from mobilerun.

mobilerun-core-local is the slim async local-driver core of mobilerun.
No CLI, no agent, no LLM providers — just local Android/iOS drivers for higher-level tools such as mobilerun-core.

📕 Documentation · 🧠 mobilerun framework · 📦 PyPI

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• 📱 Drive local devices — Android over ADB+Portal, Android Portal HTTP-only, or iOS Portal HTTP.
• ⚡ TCP-with-content-provider fallback — fast Android HTTP path over adb forward, transparent fallback to content-provider RPC.
• 🔌 HTTP-only drivers — connect to already-running Android/iOS portals without taking over setup.
• 🛠 Portal lifecycle — download, install, accessibility enablement, auto-upgrade.
• 🪶 Slim — a small async driver package with four runtime deps (async_adbutils, httpx, requests, rich).
• 🔌 Embeddable — designed to be wrapped by sync facades (e.g. mobilerun-core) or used directly.
• 🤝 In sync with upstream — verbatim slice of droidrun/mobilerun; behaviour and API track upstream.

📦 Installation

Note: Python >=3.11,<3.14. The Android ADB driver requires ADB on PATH and a device with USB debugging enabled. HTTP-only drivers require an already-running portal URL.

uv pip install mobilerun-core-local

🚀 Quick usage

import asyncio
from async_adbutils import adb
from mobilerun_core_local import AndroidDriver
from mobilerun_core_local.driver.android import ensure_portal_ready


async def main():
    # 1. Make sure Portal is installed + accessibility is on.
    device = await adb.device()
    await ensure_portal_ready(device)

    # 2. Drive the device.
    driver = AndroidDriver(serial=device.serial, use_tcp=True)
    await driver.connect()

    await driver.tap(540, 1200)
    await driver.swipe(540, 1600, 540, 400, duration_ms=300)
    await driver.input_text("hello", clear=True)
    png_bytes = await driver.screenshot()
    tree = await driver.get_ui_tree()


asyncio.run(main())

HTTP-only Android:

import asyncio
from mobilerun_core_local import AndroidPortalHttpDriver


async def main():
    driver = AndroidPortalHttpDriver(
        url="http://127.0.0.1:18080",
        token="...",
    )
    await driver.connect()
    await driver.tap(540, 1200)


asyncio.run(main())

iOS Portal:

import asyncio
from mobilerun_core_local import IOSPortalDriver


async def main():
    driver = IOSPortalDriver("http://127.0.0.1:6643")
    await driver.connect()
    await driver.start_app("com.apple.Preferences")


asyncio.run(main())

🧱 Layout

Platform-specific code is namespaced under driver/<platform>/ and transport/<platform>/. Adding a new backend (e.g. iOS over USB, a new Android transport) does not pollute the package root.

mobilerun_core_local/
├── __init__.py                       Re-exports the public driver surface
├── driver/
│   ├── base.py                       DeviceDriver ABC, DeviceDisconnectedError
│   ├── android/
│   │   ├── adb.py                    AndroidDriver — ADB-backed driver
│   │   ├── http.py                   AndroidPortalHttpDriver — HTTP-only driver
│   │   └── portal.py                 Portal APK lifecycle + content-provider helpers
│   └── ios/
│       └── http.py                   IOSPortalDriver — ios-portal HTTP driver
└── transport/
    └── android/
        └── portal_client.py          PortalClient — TCP-with-content-provider fallback

📚 Public API

Re-exported from mobilerun_core_local:

Symbol	What it is
AndroidDriver	ADB+Portal device driver. Async methods: tap, swipe, input_text, press_button, start_app, install_app, screenshot, get_ui_tree, get_apps, list_packages, get_date.
AndroidPortalHttpDriver	HTTP-only Android Portal driver. Requires url and bearer token; does not use ADB at runtime.
IOSPortalDriver / IOSDriver	iOS Portal HTTP driver. Requires an already-running ios-portal URL.
DeviceDriver	Abstract base for drivers. supported: set[str] declares which verbs a subclass implements.
DeviceDisconnectedError	Raised when the device drops mid-call.
validate_android_portal_url(url) / validate_ios_portal_url(url)	Normalize + sanity-check portal URLs.
discover_ios_portal(...)	Scan localhost for a reachable ios-portal HTTP endpoint.

Android Portal helpers live under mobilerun_core_local.driver.android (not at the package root, since they're Android-specific):

Symbol	What it is
setup_portal(device)	Download + install + enable the Portal APK on a device.
ensure_portal_ready(device)	Idempotent: install/upgrade Portal and enable accessibility if needed.
setup_keyboard(device)	Switch the device to the Mobilerun IME.
ping_portal(device)	Verify Portal is installed and reachable.
PORTAL_PACKAGE_NAME, A11Y_SERVICE_NAME	Portal identifiers.
portal_content_uri(pkg, path)	Build content://<pkg>/<path> URIs.
portal_a11y_service(pkg), portal_ime_id(pkg)	Accessibility service / IME component names.

PortalClient (the TCP-with-content-provider transport) lives at mobilerun_core_local.transport.android.PortalClient — used internally by AndroidDriver, exposed for low-level access.

AndroidDriver accepts:

• serial: str | None — ADB serial; None picks the only connected device.
• use_tcp: bool = False — when True, the underlying PortalClient port-forwards Portal's HTTP server (localhost:N → device:8080) and uses it instead of the content provider. Faster but requires a working forward; falls back transparently.

🪵 Logging

All output goes through the "mobilerun_core_local" logger. Configure it yourself; the package attaches no handlers.

import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
logging.getLogger("mobilerun_core_local").setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

🔗 Relationship to upstream mobilerun

This package owns local execution drivers. The full framework imports these drivers for CLI/agent flows; mobilerun-core wraps them behind a sync, backend-neutral API.

Use mobilerun-core-local when you need async local drivers directly. Use mobilerun when you want the full LLM-agent experience, CLI/TUI, and multi-platform support out of the box.

📄 License

MIT — see LICENSE.