Overview
DeviceKit is the on-device runtime layer that MobileCLI and Mobile Next Cloud build on. It runs on iOS devices and simulators (devicekit-ios) and Android devices and emulators (devicekit-android), exposing a JSON-RPC 2.0 API over WebSocket or HTTP.
Most users don't interact with DeviceKit directly — MobileCLI, Mobilewright, and Mobile MCP all connect to it transparently. DeviceKit is useful if you're building a custom integration at the driver level or contributing to the Mobile Next stack.
What DeviceKit provides
- Tap, swipe, long-press, type text, press hardware buttons (HOME, LOCK, VOLUME)
- App lifecycle: launch, terminate, foreground detection by bundle ID
- Live screen streaming: MJPEG and H264 at configurable FPS and bitrate
- UI inspection: full accessibility tree dumps for element targeting
- Screenshots: PNG or JPEG with configurable quality
- System control: orientation, open URLs, screen size and scale
- Flexible transport: JSON-RPC 2.0 over WebSocket or HTTP, from any language
iOS
- Minimum iOS 16.0, Swift 5.9, Xcode 15.0+
- GitHub: https://github.com/mobile-next/devicekit-ios
Android
License
DeviceKit is licensed under FSL-1.1-Apache-2.0.