#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.

#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

#🎯 Side Panel Shortcuts

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

#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

#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

#🎵 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:

• 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

#🎤 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.

#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

#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

Required Permission: Microphone (for voice recognition only)

#💡 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