mobile-mcp supports for stdin and SSE transports.

The Server-Sent-Events transport allows mobile-mcp to be running on a different host than the client itself.

For example, consider this architecture. A Claude Code client is running on my Windows machine, which is connected to a remote mac which is running mobile-mcp, and that is connected to iphone through usb.

+--------+      +------------+      +------------+      +--------+
| Claude |----->| remote mac |----->| mobile-mcp |----->| iphone |
+--------+      +------------+      +------------+      +--------+

To get started, we need 2 things to be configured:

1. mobile-mcp is running and listening on a port
2. Client is configured to connect to mcp through this address

To run mobile-mcp, simply execute the following command. Modify the port 10000 to your preferred port number.

npx -y @mobilenext/mobile-mcp --port 10000

It will return a response like:

mobile-mcp sse server listening on http://localhost:10000/mcp

Similarly to adding mobile-mcp with stdin transport, configuring is done in the same fashion:

Command line:

claude mcp add --transport sse mobile-mcp http://localhost:10000/mcp

Through json configuration:

"mcpServers": {
    "mobile-mcp": {
        "type": "sse",
        "url": "http://localhost:10000/mcp"
    }
},

Notice that you cannot provide environment variables through this transport configuration. Environment variables such as ANDROID_HOME have to be exported prior to starting the mobile-mcp server itself.