OpenMobile: Building Open Mobile Agents with Task and Trajectory Synthesis

arXiv cs.AI / 4/17/2026

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Key Points

  • The paper introduces OpenMobile, an open-source framework for building mobile agents by synthesizing high-quality task instructions and agent trajectories for vision-language model–powered mobile automation.
  • OpenMobile uses a scalable task-synthesis pipeline that builds a global environment memory from exploration, then generates diverse and grounded instructions based on that memory.
  • It also proposes a policy-switching strategy during trajectory rollout, alternating learner and expert models to capture error-recovery signals that are often missing in standard imitation learning.
  • Agents trained on OpenMobile’s data show strong results on three mobile-agent benchmarks, with fine-tuned Qwen2.5-VL and Qwen3-VL reaching 51.7% and 64.7% on AndroidWorld, outperforming prior open-data approaches.
  • The authors provide transparent analyses to show that performance improvements come from broader functionality coverage rather than benchmark overfitting, and they release code and data to support further research.

Abstract

Mobile agents powered by vision-language models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in automating mobile tasks, with recent leading models achieving a marked performance leap, e.g., nearly 70% success on AndroidWorld. However, these systems keep their training data closed and remain opaque about their task and trajectory synthesis recipes. We present OpenMobile, an open-source framework that synthesizes high-quality task instructions and agent trajectories, with two key components: (1) The first is a scalable task synthesis pipeline that constructs a global environment memory from exploration, then leverages it to generate diverse and grounded instructions. and (2) a policy-switching strategy for trajectory rollout. By alternating between learner and expert models, it captures essential error-recovery data often missing in standard imitation learning. Agents trained on our data achieve competitive results across three dynamic mobile agent benchmarks: notably, our fine-tuned Qwen2.5-VL and Qwen3-VL reach 51.7% and 64.7% on AndroidWorld, far surpassing existing open-data approaches. Furthermore, we conduct transparent analyses on the overlap between our synthetic instructions and benchmark test sets, and verify that performance gains stem from broad functionality coverage rather than benchmark overfitting. We release data and code at https://njucckevin.github.io/openmobile/ to bridge the data gap and facilitate broader mobile agent research.