Build without code: the block editor

By the end of this page you will have built a block script that taps a button several times, seen the Python it generates, and run it on your phone. ⏱ 10 minutes.

How it works

Each block is one action: tap, wait, look for an image, write a message. You stack them in a workspace, in the order you want them to run. AppsMobs turns the stack into a Python script that you can read, copy or edit afterwards.

1. 1

   Switch to Blocks mode

   Open the Playground (sidebar, under Build), then create a script with More actions (the ⋯ button), New script (Ctrl + N).

   At the top of the editor, click Blocks (next to Code). The title Blocks Mode · No-Code shows up and the Code Blocks library opens on the left.

   In the middle you read No blocks yet. That is normal: the workspace is empty.

2. 2

   Add a loop

   In the library, open the Loops category and click For loop.

   A window Configurer: For loop opens (the field labels of this window are in French). Leave Nombre de répétitions (number of repetitions) at 5 and click Save.

   The block For loop (5 fois) appears in the workspace. Under it, a zone says Glissez des blocs ici pour les ajouter à l'intérieur ("drag blocks here to add them inside").

   Find a block quickly

   Type a word in Search for a block (e.g., click, image, swipe) at the top of the library. The book button on the right shows a block's documentation.

3. 3

   Drag blocks into the loop

   What is inside the loop repeats. Drag, one by one, these blocks from the library to the zone under the loop, in this order:

   1. ⭐ Find & Click (category Image Detection): waits for the image, then taps it.
   2. Log (category Utilities): writes a message in the Output.
   3. Wait (category Utilities): pauses.

   If you click a block instead of dragging it, it is added at the end of the workspace, not in the loop. In that case, drag it to move it.

4. 4

   Set each block's fields

   Each block has its own fields, shown under its title (the 🔼 / 🔽 button hides or shows them). Fill in:

   • ⭐ Find & Click: Image = button.png, Confidence = 0.85.
   • Log: Message = Button handled.
   • Wait: Secondes (seconds) = 1.

   0.85 is the confidence: the higher it is, the more the image must look like the screen. If the button is not recognised, lower it to 0.7.

   On each block, ⧉ duplicates it and ✕ deletes it.

5. 5

   Look at the generated script

   The Generated script panel shows the matching Python. It looks like this:

   for i in range(5):
       tap_image("button.png", 0.85)
       log("Button handled")
       wait(1)
   

   (AppsMobs also adds # block-… comment lines. They help it find which block caused a problem: do not delete them.)

   The panel's buttons: Refresh regenerates the code, Copy copies it, Send to editor puts it in Code mode so you can edit it by hand. Three layout buttons in the bar above (tooltips: Blocks + Script, Blocks only, Script only) choose what you see: blocks and script, blocks alone, or script alone.

6. 6

   Choose the device and run

   Click Run on and tick your device, then click Run (F5).

   What happens: the Output panel shows Launching on, then five times Button handled, and the status ends with Finished in followed by the duration.

   If the script is refused, it is the safety check: see below.

7. 7

   Save

   Press Ctrl + S. The script is saved as .py in Documents\AppsMobs\Scripts, and your block layout is kept next to it: you can reopen the script in Blocks mode. The image must stay in the same folder as the script, or in Scripts\img.

The most useful blocks and the Python they write

The full list, with the 12 categories of the library (Basic Actions, Text & Input, Navigation, Image Detection, Smart Detection (YOLO), Loops, Utilities, Apps Management, System & Device, Network, Volume & Media, Communication), is in the library itself. The matching Python functions are in the function reference.

Making an "if" with a condition

To act only when something is on screen, use If condition or If/Else condition. The configuration window offers a no-code condition builder:

1. Pick the type: Image, Text, Variable or Custom.
2. Pick the operator: Exists, Does not exist, Equals, Not equals, Greater than, Less than.
3. Enter the value, for example popup.png. The Generated code line shows the result.

Then drag into the "if" the blocks to run. With If/Else condition, one part runs if the condition is true, the other otherwise.

What Blocks mode forbids

In Blocks mode, before each run, AppsMobs checks that the script only uses AppsMobs functions (and a few safe Python tools like time, random, math, json). Otherwise you get the Execution blocked window: For your security, this script cannot be executed., with the reason Unauthorized functions detected (whitelist mode).

This is intended: Blocks mode is the safest, it only lets device actions through.

Not working?

What next

• Writing a Python script: edit the generated code, add conditions.
• Function reference: every possible action.
• Write scripts with Claude or Grok: describe what you want, read, adjust.