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Very popular in the early android age. You can still download it: its called my talking tom.
I always thought it was sketchy to make abuse look fun to kids when I found its recoil-from-a-punch animation. Meanwhile waifu apps were animated for petting. Here, single folk, any touch is a sexual one, and kids, hit cats! They bounce right back.
It also mimicked your voice with a higher pitch modulation - probably played a large part in the popularity of munchkin voices for modern miniature characters
Anyone being let loose with a smartphone should really be able to tell fiction from reality...