# Mobile Device MCP MCP Server

Control iOS and Android devices with multi-device and seamless Native/WebView support.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled Mobile Device MCP yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `@srmorete/mobile-device-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**10 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 7.

### Most discussed

### `list_devices` returns `[]` for connected Android devices when the package is launched via `npx`

### Summary

I hit an Android discovery failure with `@srmorete/mobile-device-mcp@0.1.2` while using the documented `npx` launch path.

`adb devices -l` showed connected Android devices, but:

- `list_devices` returned `[]`
- a follow-up Android call failed with `Device <id> not found in adb, simctl, or devicectl`

This made the server behave as if no Android devices were connected, even though `adb` itself was healthy.

### Environment

- macOS
- `@srmorete/mobile-device-mcp@0.1.2`
- launched v

[Read the thread](https://github.com/srmorete/mobile-device-mcp/issues/2) · 2026-04-13 · open · external user · 6 comments

### Why there is no app installation?

This project is really nice, but it's not a replacment for the adb mcp. There are many good things that add allows like logcat and app installation and shell execution. This does not provide those things

[Read the thread](https://github.com/srmorete/mobile-device-mcp/issues/9) · 2026-06-17 · open · external user · 2 comments

### Android port allocation is a TOCTOU race across concurrent first-time bootstraps

## Summary

`allocateAndroidPort()` reads `pendingPorts`, but `addPendingPort(port)` only happens later in `bootstrapAndroid` (after two `await`s). `bootstrapChains` serializes bootstrap **per device ID**, not globally, so two concurrent first-time bootstraps of *different* Android devices can both compute the same free port (e.g. 18000) before either marks it pending. The second `adb forward tcp:<port>` then fails with a confusing adb error.

The iOS path is immune because `tryLockPort` (atomic

[Read the thread](https://github.com/srmorete/mobile-device-mcp/issues/16) · 2026-07-25 · open · 0 comments

### iOS: first tool calls after session start fail transiently (timeout, then 500, then OK)

## Summary

On iOS, the first tool calls in a session fail transiently. A retry of the same call succeeds. This looks like a cold-start problem in the driver or the UITreeServer app.

## Environment

- iPhone 17 Pro Max simulator, iOS 26.3, already booted
- Safari in the foreground
- Tool: `mobile_device_mcp_uitree`

## Observed

Three identical `uitree` calls in a row:

1. First call: times out (about 30 s).
2. Second call: `GET /uitree failed: 500 Internal Server Error` with an empty body.
3. 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/srmorete/mobile-device-mcp/issues/15) · 2026-07-25 · closed · 0 comments

### iOS uitree search: giant page-root container ranks first and crowds out leaf nodes

## Summary

On iOS, `uitree` with a `search` term returns the page-root container as the first hit. The container holds the whole web page. Under a small `limit`, it crowds out the leaf nodes that the caller wants.

## Environment

- iPhone 17 Pro Max simulator, iOS 26.3
- Safari showing amazon.com search results for "gummy bears"
- Tool: `mobile_device_mcp_uitree` with `search`

## Observed

`search: "gummy bears"` returns as the first hit:

```json
{"id":2,"text":"Amazon.com : gummy bears","bo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/srmorete/mobile-device-mcp/issues/14) · 2026-07-25 · closed · 0 comments

### Most recent

### healthPoll: fixed 500ms interval adds a ~500ms floor to cold bootstrap

## Location

`src/server/bootstrap.ts:362`, `HEALTH_POLL_INTERVAL = 500`.

## Effect

Minimum time-to-healthy is 500 ms even when the driver server comes up in ~50 ms. Cold-bootstrap measurements (first tool call after test-app install):

| Platform | cold-path total |
|---|---|
| Android | 2365 ms |
| iOS sim | 3504 ms |

A meaningful slice of that is the poll interval, not the driver actually taking 500 ms to be ready.

## Proposal

Adaptive schedule — e.g. 25, 50, 100, 200, 500 ms, then 500 m

[Read the thread](https://github.com/srmorete/mobile-device-mcp/issues/6) · 2026-04-17 · closed · 0 comments

### Node adapter leaks grandchild processes on cleanup (process-group kill)

## Context

Follow-up to #2 / v0.1.3. The Node branch of the `proc.ts` spawn shim works for all current call sites, but it differs from Bun in one cleanup detail that can leak descendant processes.

## Problem

`src/server/devices.ts:178` and the equivalent paths in `bootstrap.ts` try to reap a device's entire process tree via:

```ts
process.kill(-device.serverProcess.pid, "SIGKILL");
```

The negative pid tells the kernel "send SIGKILL to this process group." That only works if the spawned chi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/srmorete/mobile-device-mcp/issues/4) · 2026-04-15 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 10 reports Pod holds for Mobile Device MCP](/mcp/mobile-device-mcp/issues).

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