I’m developing an Android chat assistant app, which can convert an user query to tool calls by invoking a backend service API on cloud. In my case, many tools must be run on mobile client side (i.e. on Android OS), and some of them are time-consuming, e.g. switching Bluetooth on/off, setting an alarm, making a phone call to somebody on behalf of user, etc. That means the problem is, agents on cloud must trigger a tool call running on mobile client side.
Is MCP server applicable for implement those tools running on mobile client side? In my opinion, the answer is NO. It's not a good idea to start a http server on mobile phone, because it is power-consuming, vulnerable, and also mobile network is unstable.
If not applicable, what is the best way to call tools on mobile side from cloud side?
The only way I can think of is, forwarding LLM output of response.choices.message.tool_calls to mobile client side, then client parses the function name and arguments to invoke the tool.
I’m developing an Android chat assistant app, which can convert an user query to tool calls by invoking a backend service API on cloud. In my case, many tools must be run on mobile client side (i.e. on Android OS), and some of them are time-consuming, e.g. switching Bluetooth on/off, setting an alarm, making a phone call to somebody on behalf of user, etc. That means the problem is, agents on cloud must trigger a tool call running on mobile client side.
Is MCP server applicable for implement those tools running on mobile client side? In my opinion, the answer is NO. It's not a good idea to start a http server on mobile phone, because it is power-consuming, vulnerable, and also mobile network is unstable.
If not applicable, what is the best way to call tools on mobile side from cloud side?
The only way I can think of is, forwarding LLM output of response.choices.message.tool_calls to mobile client side, then client parses the function name and arguments to invoke the tool.
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Reset to default 0You can check this github repository for mobile-mcp
https://github/mobile-next/mobile-mcp