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Mika
An Android assistant that taps through your phone's apps while you keep using it
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It shows how far a phone agent can get with no app APIs at all, by working the screen the way a person would while you keep using the phone.
Mika runs apps on a hidden second screen, reading and tapping like a person, so your own screen stays free. You connect the model yourself: DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, OpenAI or a local one, with keys kept encrypted on the phone and no Mika server between. It stops before payments and hands you logins and codes. Setup needs a one-time wireless-debugging pairing, which can drop after a restart, and most built-in app knowledge is Chinese.
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