From Tapping to Hopping: Augmenting Mobile GUI Agents with App-Native Deeplinks

Yuchen Sun; Chenglin Cai; Gongjie Zhang; Tianyu Xia; Quyu Kong; Panrong Tong; Zhengwen Zeng; Long Chen; Steven Hoi; Chongyang Zhang; Yue Wang

arXiv · 2609.30887

From Tapping to Hopping: Augmenting Mobile GUI Agents with App-Native Deeplinks

Yuchen Sun·Chenglin Cai·Gongjie Zhang·Tianyu Xia·Quyu Kong·Panrong Tong·Zhengwen Zeng·Long Chen·Steven Hoi·Chongyang Zhang·Yue Wang

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Abstract

Mobile GUI agents complete tasks using GUI actions like taps and swipes. These actions are broadly applicable across applications, but reaching a navigation interface. A single deeplink call can replace a sequence of screen-by-screen GUI actions. We therefore introduce hybrid interaction, using deeplinks for direct navigation and GUI actions for other on-screen operations and fallback. To enable this, we discover candidate deeplinks through static analysis, validate them on real devices, and describe their observed landing screens. This process creates a verified and grounded deeplink catalog that pairs each working deeplink with a description of its landing screen. Using this catalog, we introduce GUI-Hopper, a improves task success in commercial applications on real devices, further demonstrating the benefits of hybrid interaction.

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Yuchen Sun, Chenglin Cai, Gongjie Zhang, Tianyu Xia, Quyu Kong, Panrong Tong, Zhengwen Zeng, Long Chen, Steven Hoi, Chongyang Zhang, Yue Wang. 2026-09-25. From Tapping to Hopping: Augmenting Mobile GUI Agents with App-Native Deeplinks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30887

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