Mobile GUI Automation

GUI: Graphical User Interface

Overview

Mobile GUI automation studies how software can understand smartphone screens and complete tasks or test workflows through taps, swipes, typing, and other actions. Common approaches use vision-language models with planning and memory, supervised or reinforcement learning, and tools such as accessibility data, app-specific skills, world models, or CLI commands. Benchmarks including AndroidWorld and MobileWorld, along with real-device tests and simulated apps, measure task success, efficiency, and recovery from errors. Agents are becoming more capable, but long workflows, changing interfaces, reliable verification, and protection against privacy leaks or prompt injection remain difficult.

Latest papers

CardsList

37 papers1 paper in the last four weeks, down 80% on the four weeks before. 0.0% of all new papers.

  1. GUI-JEPA: Candidate-Conditioned JEPA Latents as a Fast Action Policy for Mobile GUI Agents

    Oct 27, 2026Bingchao Wang, Yongcheng Jing, Shunyu Liu +5Mobile GUI AgentsMobile GUI Automation

  2. PhoneCLI: From App Interfaces to Callable Commands for Mobile Agents

    Sep 28, 2026Yangqin Jiang, Lingrui Xu, Chao HuangMobile GUI AutomationMobile GUI Agents

  3. Reflect, Revise, Reuse: Training-Free Skill Evolution for GUI Agents

    Sep 15, 2026Bofan Chen, Boxuan Zhang, Fei Tang +7Mobile GUI AutomationGUI Agents

  4. APPSim-Bench: Bridging Real-world Apps and Reproducible Evaluation for Mobile GUI Agents

    Sep 7, 2026Jintian Feng, Long Chen, Xiao Yu +7Mobile GUI AutomationGUI Agents

  5. ElderBench: Benchmarking Autonomous Mobile Agents for Older Adults

    Sep 4, 2026Weide Zhan, Qumu Shaqu, Yuanqing Liu +6Mobile GUI AutomationComputer-Use Agent Benchmarks

  6. AppDeltaWorld: Transition-Grounded Delta Code World Model for Mobile GUI Agents

    Aug 6, 2026Weikai Xu, Yunren Feng, Haoxiang Lei +6Mobile GUI AutomationWorld Model Learning

  7. StepReflect: Structured UI Transition Reflection for Mobile GUI Agents

    Aug 6, 2026Linqiang Guo, Wei Liu, Li Gu +3Mobile GUI AutomationGUI Agents

  8. DragonCrawl: A Generative, Intent-Based Framework for Scalable Mobile End-to-End Testing

    Jul 30, 2026Sowjanya Puligadda, Mengdie Zhang, Ali Zamani +3Mobile GUI AutomationAutomated Software Testing

  9. Qwen-UI-Agent Technical Report: Toward Next-Generation Real-World Centric Foundation GUI Agents

    Jul 30, 2026Hanzhang Zhou, Panrong Tong, Xu Zhang +13Mobile GUI AutomationComputer-Use Agents

  10. KnowAct-GUIClaw: Know Deeply, Act Perfectly, Personal GUI Assistant with Self-Evolving Memory and Skill

    Jul 14, 2026Yunxin Li, Jinchao Li, Shibo Su +7Mobile GUI AutomationGUI Agents

  11. An Empirical Study for Android-to-OpenHarmony GUI Test Migration

    Jul 13, 2026Yakun Zhang, Xinjia Chen, Yiyun Chen +6Mobile GUI AutomationAutomated Software Testing

  12. A Task-State Representation for Long-Horizon Mobile GUI Agents

    Jul 1, 2026Yujie Zheng, Zikang Liu, Xin Zhao +1Mobile GUI AutomationState Representation Learning

  13. Xiaomi-GUI-0 Technical Report

    Jun 30, 2026Wanxia Cao, Chengzhen Duan, Pei Fu +29Mobile GUI AutomationRL for GUI Agents

  14. Beyond the GUI Paradigm: Do Mobile Agents Need the Phone Screen?

    Jun 16, 2026Li Gu, Zihuan Jiang, Linqiang Guo +6Mobile GUI AutomationAI Coding Agents

  15. PhoneHarness: Harnessing Phone-Use Agents through Mixed GUI, CLI, and Tool Actions

    Jun 12, 2026Chenxin Li, Zhengyao Fang, Zhengyang Tang +18Mobile GUI AutomationMobile Agent Benchmarks

  16. GUITrans2Act: Understanding User Operational Behaviors from Mobile GUI Interactions with Vision-Language Models

    Jun 11, 2026Yudong Zhang, Lei Hu, Daoyang Liu +4Mobile GUI AutomationVision-Language Agents

  17. CAPED: Context-Aware Privacy Exposure Defense for Mobile GUI Agents

    Jun 10, 2026Siyu Shen, Fenghao Xu, Wenrui Diao +1Mobile GUI AutomationPrivacy-Utility Tradeoff

  18. MIRAGE: Mobile Agents with Implicit Reasoning and Generative World Models

    Jun 3, 2026Zhichao Yang, Yuanze Hu, Haojie Hao +7Mobile GUI AutomationLatent Visual Reasoning

  19. UI-KOBE: Knowledge-Oriented Behavior Exploration for Lightweight Graph-Guided GUI Agents

    May 28, 2026Yuxiang Chai, Han Xiao, Xinyu Fu +3Mobile GUI AutomationGUI Agents

  20. PhoneWorld: From Real-App Trajectories to Dynamic and Verifiable Environments for Phone-Use Agents

    May 28, 2026Yuxuan Liu, Xin Lai, Junyi Li +21Mobile GUI AutomationMobile Agent Benchmarks

  21. MIRAGE: Context-Aware Prompt Injection against Mobile GUI Agents via User-Generated Content

    May 27, 2026Ruoqi Guo, Yi Liu, Gelei Deng +7Mobile GUI AutomationGUI Agents

  22. AndroidDaily: A Verifiable Benchmark for Mobile GUI Agents on Real-World Closed-Source Applications

    May 26, 2026Yifan Sui, Xin Huang, Hongbing Li +14Automated EvaluationComputer-Use Agent Benchmarks

  23. MobileExplorer: Accelerating On-Device Inference for Mobile GUI Agents via Online Exploration

    May 26, 2026Runxi Huang, Liyu Zhang, Shengzhong Liu +1Mobile GUI AutomationEfficient VLM Inference

  24. MobileGym: A Verifiable and Highly Parallel Simulation Platform for Mobile GUI Agent Research

    May 25, 2026Dingbang Wu, Rui Hao, Haiyang Wang +8Mobile GUI AutomationGUI Agents

  25. ScaleWoB: Guiding GUI Agents with Coding Agents via Large-Scale Environmental Synthesis

    May 24, 2026Guohong Liu, Jialei Ye, Pengzhi Gao +4Mobile GUI AutomationGUI Agents

  26. AgentLens: Adaptive Visual Modalities for Human-Agent Interaction in Mobile GUI Agents

    Apr 22, 2026Jeonghyeon Kim, Byeongjun Joung, Junwon Lee +3Mobile GUI AutomationComputer-Use Agents

  27. Do LLMs Need to See Everything? A Benchmark and Study of Failures in LLM-driven Smartphone Automation using Screentext vs. Screenshots

    Apr 20, 2026Shiquan Zhang, Tianyi Zhang, Le Fang +3Mobile GUI AutomationLLM Agent Evaluation