diff --git a/.changes/cli-npx-mobile.md b/.changes/cli-npx-mobile.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..973f4fb88fe6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/cli-npx-mobile.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+'tauri-cli': 'patch:bug'
+'@tauri-apps/cli': 'patch:bug'
+---
+
+Fix `tauri (android|ios) (dev|build)` failing when using `npx tauri`
diff --git a/tooling/cli/node/index.js b/tooling/cli/node/index.js
index f280ce3b3db5..16777d68d68f 100644
--- a/tooling/cli/node/index.js
+++ b/tooling/cli/node/index.js
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ function isMusl() {
   // For Node 10
   if (!process.report || typeof process.report.getReport !== 'function') {
     try {
-      const lddPath = require('child_process').execSync('which ldd').toString().trim();
+      const lddPath = require('child_process').execSync('which ldd').toString().trim()
       return readFileSync(lddPath, 'utf8').includes('musl')
     } catch (e) {
       return true
diff --git a/tooling/cli/src/build.rs b/tooling/cli/src/build.rs
index fa2ab2755069..fd65e245afcc 100644
--- a/tooling/cli/src/build.rs
+++ b/tooling/cli/src/build.rs
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ pub fn setup(options: &mut Options, mobile: bool) -> Result<AppInterface> {
     .any(|ch| !(ch.is_alphanumeric() || ch == '-' || ch == '.'))
   {
     error!(
-      "The bundle identifier \"{}\" set in `{} > tauri > bundle > identifier`. The bundle identifier string must contain only alphanumeric characters (A–Z, a–z, and 0–9), hyphens (-), and periods (.).",
+      "The bundle identifier \"{}\" set in `{} > tauri > bundle > identifier`. The bundle identifier string must contain only alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, and 0-9), hyphens (-), and periods (.).",
       config_.tauri.bundle.identifier,
       bundle_identifier_source
     );
diff --git a/tooling/cli/src/mobile/init.rs b/tooling/cli/src/mobile/init.rs
index 9c15c2615ad3..6d903d6c6478 100644
--- a/tooling/cli/src/mobile/init.rs
+++ b/tooling/cli/src/mobile/init.rs
@@ -130,20 +130,26 @@ pub fn exec(
   if r.is_match(&bin_stem) {
     if let Some(npm_execpath) = var_os("npm_execpath").map(PathBuf::from) {
       let manager_stem = npm_execpath.file_stem().unwrap().to_os_string();
-      binary = if manager_stem == "npm-cli" {
+      let is_npm = manager_stem == "npm-cli";
+      let is_npx = manager_stem == "npx-cli";
+      binary = if is_npm {
         "npm".into()
+      } else if is_npx {
+        "npx".into()
       } else {
         manager_stem
       };
-      if !build_args.is_empty() {
+      if !(build_args.is_empty() || is_npx) {
         // remove script path, we'll use `npm_lifecycle_event` instead
         build_args.remove(0);
       }
-      if binary == "npm" {
+      if is_npm {
         build_args.insert(0, "--".into());
       }
-      build_args.insert(0, var("npm_lifecycle_event").unwrap());
-      if binary == "npm" {
+      if !is_npx {
+        build_args.insert(0, var("npm_lifecycle_event").unwrap());
+      }
+      if is_npm {
         build_args.insert(0, "run".into());
       }
     }