Aiming at enhancing the portability of the smart home management, it is an effective way to use the mobile terminal such as the mobile phone to control the smart home remotely. In addition, properly designed application on the mobile phone can give convenience to monitor the smart home as well as improve the user experience. In this paper, after a comprehensive analysis to the functions of the smart home, a related application based on Android is presented using the scheme of modular design. The application has the functions of monitoring the remote data and controlling the appliances in a long distance. Meanwhile, it can also realize the access control. The test of the application shows that it can receive the sensor data timely and make a proper control of the appliances, which means that it has realized the desired targets.