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Re: Python on Android

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Post by nekopa »

eli wrote: post #5
lqdc13 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On Ubuntu it's really easy though. This is why I switched OSes a few years ago. Things are just easier if you use the same platform as other developers.

Or just run a VM

I recently switched to using vagrant for devving under windows and I have to say that I am really enjoying it at the moment.

Re: Python on Android

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Post by analog31 »

In my view a gaping hole in the Python for Android "stack" is the lack of Tkinter. I know that there are technical hurdles, though I don't understand them.

Re: Python on Android

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Post by Macha »

analog31 wrote: post #13

In my view a gaping hole in the Python for Android "stack" is the lack of Tkinter. I know that there are technical hurdles, though I don't understand them.

Tkinter itself would need some form of mobile support or you'd end up with something like this:

http://files.alex-elliott.co.uk/qt/expressioneditor_android....

Re: Python on Android

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Post by JulianWasTaken »

I'm not a mobile developer, so my interests in Python on Android were fairly brief, but the last time I tried, python-for-android was nearly unusably annoying to work with -- a chrooted normal linux with a real Python was miles better.

The `android` module is also rather poor, IIRC it's just some RPC which would be somewhat better off rewritten (a non-blocking version using twisted was a thing I think I started on but never finished).

Re: Python on Android

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Post by andybak »

Macha wrote: post #7

So, I've actually been working for the past while on a project to allow building more native apps on Android using Python. It is built on the Kivy tools, but I have had to make some changes to python-for-android specifically because it's not as seperated from Kivy as the developers think. I've also had to make a small change to PyJNIus, as it has a dependency on SDL when on Android. The reason I chose to work on this…

Good god, here's a Kickstarter I'd get behind.

Re: Python on Android

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Post by markdown »

OT:

> the unimaginatively-named python-for-android project.

I love that name. Much better than the "imaginatively" named grunt, travis, react, kivy, vagrant, etc.

Re: Python on Android

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Post by crshults »

analog31 wrote: post #13

In my view a gaping hole in the Python for Android "stack" is the lack of Tkinter. I know that there are technical hurdles, though I don't understand them.

Wonder if some of the work from here [1] could be leveraged to fill that hole faster.

[1] http://www.androwish.org/index.html/home

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