Parrot Assistant Android App 🦜

Parrot Assistant brings powerful AI capabilities to your Android device with Side Panel Shortcuts and AI Voice Keyboard—two features that supercharge your mobile experience.

Quick Overview

Side Panel Shortcuts - Swipe from screen edge for instant access to camera, media controls, and touch cursor.

AI Voice Keyboard - Type with your voice in any app with high-accuracy speech recognition.

Note: AI features require HuBrowser Membership.

Download on Google Play

Demo Videos

Why Use Parrot Assistant? ✨

  • Instant access 🎯: Swipe from screen edge for quick actions
  • Voice typing anywhere 🎤: High-accuracy speech recognition in any app
  • One-hand friendly 👍: Perfect for large screens and single-hand operation
  • Privacy-first 🔒: No data collection—everything runs locally
  • Ultra-lightweight 🪶: Minimal resource usage with smart caching
  • Beautiful design 🎨: Gradient buttons, dark mode, smooth animations

Home screen showing Parrot Assistant

🎯 Side Panel Shortcuts

Swipe from the edge of your screen to instantly access 9 powerful tools:

Side Panel showing quick action buttons

How to Use

  1. 👆 Swipe inward from the screen edge
  2. 🎯 Panel automatically appears with action buttons
  3. ✋ Hover over a button and release to activate

Configure the trigger zone

Trigger Zone Settings:

  • 📍 Choose trigger edge (left/right)
  • 📏 Adjust trigger zone height
  • 📐 Configure trigger zone position
  • 🎯 Real-time preview

Side panel settings and customization options

Core Features

  • Smart anti-accidental touch: Only activates when you swipe from the edge inward
  • One-hand operation: Swipe, hover, release to activate
  • Auto-hide: Automatically hides after 3 seconds to avoid interfering with normal use
  • Single action completion: Complete actions with one swipe, no repeated interactions needed
  • Real-time preview: Hovering displays the current button icon in the top-left corner—know which function is selected without looking at the side panel
  • Progressive feedback: Vibration and sound help you distinguish between actions
    • 📳 Progressive vibration feedback (buttons farther from edge vibrate stronger)
    • 🎶 Each button uses phone dial tones 1-9 for audio cues

📷 Row 1: Camera & Scanning

📸 Photo

  • Quick photo capture
  • Can use without unlocking
  • No tracking, works offline

🎥 Video Recording

  • One-tap video recording
  • Convenient for capturing important moments
  • No tracking, works offline

🔍 QR/Barcode Scanner

  • 🦜 Super simple app for quick QR code and barcode scanning
  • ⏩ Automatically opens links or searches content
  • ⭕ No tracking, no ads, works offline
  • ⚡ Optimized with HuBrowser for fastest performance
  • Supports text search (including Chinese search engines)
  • Supports landscape and portrait modes

QR code scanner demonstration

🎵 Row 2: Media Controls

⏪ Rewind

  • Rewind 10 seconds
  • Works with podcasts, music, videos
  • Global control, no need to open the app

⏩ Fast Forward

  • Forward 10 seconds
  • Skip parts you don't want to hear
  • Global control, no need to open the app

⏯️ Play/Pause

  • Control any playing media
  • Supports music, videos, podcasts, etc.
  • Long press to open the playing app (hover for 0.8 seconds)

Media Control Features:

  • 🎧 Global control, no need to open apps
  • 📱 Supports all major media apps
  • ⚡ Quick response, no lag
  • 🔄 Long press to quickly switch to player interface

🤖 Row 3: Screen Operations

🖱️ Touch Cursor

Convenient for one-hand operation on large phones/tablets/TVs:

Touch cursor for precise screen control

  • 3 components:
    • Blue trackball: Controls cursor position
    • Blue box: Acts as a virtual touchpad (trackball position corresponds to screen position)
    • Red cursor: Shows current click position
  • Click effects:
    • Click trackball: Clicks at the red cursor position
    • Click inside blue box: Trackball and red cursor move to the corresponding position
    • Operations outside blue box: Not affected
  • Ergonomic design: One thumb can easily move the cursor anywhere
  • Exit: Auto-exits after 3 seconds of no trackball operation (adjustable)
  • Smart highlighting: When enabled, highlights clickable buttons with red borders

🦜 AI Assistant Automation

  • Quick access to AI assistant
  • Voice interaction, intelligent dialogue
  • Get help anytime, anywhere

AI Assistant Examples:

  • Say "select text" - All text on screen becomes instantly recognized and copyable
  • Say "open [app name]" - Natural language understanding to open any app instantly
    • Examples: "open Chrome", "open WhatsApp", "open Settings"
  • Voice commands for smart automation and control

🎤 Voice Input

  • Quickly activate AI keyboard for voice input in any app
  • See AI Voice Keyboard below for details

🎤 AI Voice Keyboard

Type with your voice in any app with high-accuracy speech recognition.

AI voice keyboard interface

Core Features

  • Universal input: Works in any app that accepts text
  • High accuracy: Advanced speech recognition engine
  • Real-time transcription: See your words appear as you speak

Voice input in action

Smart Input Features

🎤 Voice Input

  • Tap the microphone button in the top-right corner of the keyboard to start recording
  • Speak clearly what you want to type
  • Text automatically appears in the input field
  • Real-time volume indicator shows recording status
  • Supports long text recording with automatic upload for transcription

Voice Input States:

  • 🎙️ Listening - Recording in progress, shows volume waveform
  • ⚙️ Processing - Uploading and transcribing audio
  • Complete - Successfully finished
  • Error - Failed with error message

⌨️ Cursor Control

Built-in smart cursor navigation for easy text editing:

  • Arrow keys: Precisely move cursor up, down, left, right
  • Word jumping: Quickly move between words
  • Line start/end: Jump to beginning or end of line with one tap
  • Text selection: Select text with Shift key

🧹 Smart Delete

  • Backspace key: Delete single characters
  • Swipe to delete words: Swipe left on the backspace key to delete entire words instead of single characters
  • Clear button: One-tap to clear all text in the current input field

😊 Emoji Keyboard

  • Quick access to commonly used emojis
  • Browse by category, easily find the emoji you need
  • Recent usage history, frequently used emojis one tap away

🔢 Special Character Quick Input

  • Long press number keys: Quickly input corresponding special characters
    • Long press 1!
    • Long press 2@
    • Long press 3#
    • Long press 4$
    • Long press 5%
    • Long press 6^
    • Long press 7&
    • Long press 8*
    • Long press 9(
    • Long press 0)
  • No need to switch to symbol keyboard, improves input efficiency

Real-time Typing Speed and Quota Display

  • Exclusive for HuBrowser members
  • View 24-hour voice record locally

How to Enable

  1. Settings → Languages & Input → Virtual Keyboard
  2. Select Parrot Keyboard
  3. Use it like any other keyboard

Keyboard settings configuration

Required Permission: Microphone (for voice recognition only)

Voice input setup guide

💡 Usage Tips

  1. Clear pronunciation: Works best in quiet environments
  2. Natural speech: Speak normally, no need to pause deliberately
  3. Punctuation: Automatically added, or say "comma", "period", etc.
  4. Long texts: Supports long recording, auto-stops and uploads
  5. Quick word deletion: Swipe left on backspace to quickly delete entire words
  6. Special characters: Long press number keys for quick symbol input, no need to switch keyboards

🤖 Made for Android

Parrot Assistant is built from the ground up specifically for Android, utilizing native Android features and APIs to deliver the best possible experience.

⚙️ Permissions Required

Initial Setup:

  • The app will guide you through enabling the necessary permissions

Permission Explanation:

  • Accessibility Service 🔐 - Side Panel swipe detection and global shortcuts (only activates when swiping from edge inward)
  • Microphone 🎤 - AI Voice Keyboard speech recognition (only when actively using voice input)
  • Camera 📷 - QR/barcode scanning (only when explicitly opening the scanner)

🎨 Interface & Experience

Parrot Assistant adopts Material Design 3 language, providing a refined and smooth user experience:

Visual Feedback

  • 🌈 Gradient buttons, beautiful and recognizable
  • 💫 Button zoom animation on hover
  • 🔍 Real-time icon preview of currently hovered button in top-left corner
  • 🌙 Dark mode support

Smart Optimization

  • ⚡ Doesn't block other operations, smooth usage
  • 🎯 Fast response, instant use
  • 🔄 Smart background updates
  • 🛡️ Automatically filters interference elements

🔐 Privacy & Security

Your privacy is our top priority. Parrot Assistant is designed with privacy-first principles:

  • Zero tracking: No analytics, no telemetry, no user profiling
  • No data collection: We don't collect any personal information
  • Minimal permissions: Only essential permissions for core features
  • Offline capable: Most features work without internet connection
  • Open about permissions: Clear explanation of why each permission is needed

🎉 Summary

Parrot Assistant perfectly combines powerful AI voice recognition, convenient side panel, and practical scanning features to provide a comprehensive intelligent assistant experience for your Android device!

Core Advantages:

  • ⚡ Fast: Edge swipe, instant access
  • 🎯 Precise: AI-powered, accurate recognition
  • 🎨 Beautiful: Material Design, visually pleasing
  • 🔧 Powerful: Multi-feature integration, all-in-one
  • 🔋 Battery-friendly: Optimized for low power consumption

Start using now to make your phone smarter! 🚀

Coming Soon 🚀

  • More Side Panel shortcuts and customization
  • Additional voice keyboard languages
  • Custom vibration patterns
  • User-defined quick actions