strands-adb 0.19.4

@tool decorated Android control for Strands Agents

strands-adb 🤖

Give your agent a phone.

@tool decorated Android control for Strands Agents & DevDuck.

Drive any adb-connected Android device (phone / tablet / emulator) from an LLM — let your agent text people, read notifications, launch apps, take screenshots, drive the UI, take physical photos, stream logcat events, mutate settings.

📘 Full docs: cagataycali.github.io/strands-adb

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Install

pip install strands-adb
brew install android-platform-tools    # or apt / pacman / winget

Enable USB debugging on your phone, plug it in, accept the trust dialog.

adb devices
# 59230DLCH0012Z  device

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Quickstart

from strands import Agent
from strands_adb import adb

agent = Agent(tools=[adb])
agent("take a screenshot of my phone and describe what's on screen")

DevDuck (1 line)

export DEVDUCK_TOOLS="strands_adb:adb;strands_tools:shell"
devduck "open whatsapp and read the last message from mom"

MCP Server (Claude Code / Claude Desktop / Cursor / any MCP client)

Expose adb + recorder over the Model Context Protocol:

No install needed — just uvx:

# stdio mode (default) — for Claude Code / Claude Desktop
uvx strands-adb

# HTTP mode — multi-client, background-capable
uvx strands-adb --http --port 8000

Claude Code:

claude mcp add strands-adb -- uvx strands-adb

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "strands-adb": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["strands-adb"]
    }
  }
}

Prefer pip?

pip install "strands-adb[mcp]"
strands-adb-mcp                    # stdio
strands-adb-mcp --http --port 8000 # HTTP

Now any MCP client can control your Android device — screenshots, UI automation, app control, sensors, everything.

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👁️ Agent can SEE the screen

screenshot returns a proper Converse API image block — the same format as strands_tools.image_reader. The agent doesn't just get a file path, it actually receives the pixels and reasons over them:

agent("take a screenshot and tell me what app is open")
# → adb(action="screenshot") returns PNG bytes in Converse image block
# → vision model reads it → "You're on the WhatsApp chat with Mom..."

Disable with include_image=False if you just want the file path.

🎬 Record What The Agent Does

Non-blocking screen recording — start before the agent acts, stop after. Review the video to see what actually happened.

adb(action="screen_record_start", output_path="/tmp/run.mp4")

agent("open whatsapp and reply to mom")   # agent works while recording

result = adb(action="screen_record_stop")
print(result["merged_path"])   # single mp4, auto-stitched past 180s

→ Screen Recording guide

90+ Actions, One Tool

Domain	Actions
Device	list, select, info, battery, wake, unlock
UI	tap, swipe, type, key, gestures, smart_tap
Screen	screenshot (image block), screen_record, screen_record_start/stop (bg), frames, ui_dump, ui_find
Apps	list, launch, kill, install, uninstall, clear_data
Files	push, pull, ls
Intents	open_url, share_text, start_activity
Camera	camera_photo (image block), camera_video
Sensors	accelerometer, gyro, light, pressure, step counter
Thermals	CPU / skin / battery / GPU / modem temps
Settings	brightness, ringer, airplane, bluetooth, any setting_put
Logs	logcat one-shot, log_stream → event_bus, notifications_parsed
A11y	enable services, captions, magnification, font scale
Comms	dial, sms_compose, media_control, volume

→ Full actions guide

Docs

• Installation
• Quickstart
• Connect a Device — USB / wireless / SSH
• Vision — screenshots as image blocks
• Smart Tap — semantic UI automation
• Camera — physical photos
• Logcat Streaming — event bus integration
• DevDuck Integration
• Safety — production hardening
• Examples — WhatsApp, notifications, autonomous
• Architecture
• API Reference

Safety

• Dry-run mode for destructive ops
• Allowlist/denylist for package operations
• No plaintext PIN/password storage
• Full audit logging of every adb invocation

→ Safety guide

License

MIT