MicroPython, a few years on
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MicroPython, a few years on
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Re: MicroPython, a few years on
#2Can micropython be used to make Android apps?
Re: MicroPython, a few years on
#3Can micropython be used to make Android apps?
You could likely interface with Android using MicroPython's wifi interface (which will almost certainly be included in the upcoming ESP8266 release) or using the micro:bit's Bluetooth Low Energy link.
Re: MicroPython, a few years on
#4Can micropython be used to make Android apps?
first, lets be clear about Micropython, the software versus PyBoard, the reference hardware. Micropython on a Pyboard is runnunig on bare metal with no OS. Micropython is very portable, and builds nicely on Linux, yielding a nice small-footprint Python. I am not aware of a build for Android, but it seems like it should be straightforward. Everything about Micropython is tuned for low memory footprint, so it might be a great tool for Android aps.
Re: MicroPython, a few years on
#5Can micropython be used to make Android apps?
first, lets be clear about Micropython, the software versus PyBoard, the reference hardware. Micropython on a Pyboard is runnunig on bare metal with no OS. Micropython is very portable, and builds nicely on Linux, yielding a nice small-footprint Python. I am not aware of a build for Android, but it seems like it should be straightforward. Everything about Micropython is tuned for low memory footprint, so it might be…
But Android is based on Linux, i.e. it wouldn't allow MicroPython to run directly on the bare metal.
So that would seem to make actual Python a better candidate for Android porting. I found http://qpython.com/ which seems interesting, but the site didn't look finished.
Re: MicroPython, a few years on
#6Can micropython be used to make Android apps?
For regular Android apps using Python you might want to look into Kivy: https://kivy.org/docs/guide/android.html
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first, lets be clear about Micropython, the software versus PyBoard, the reference hardware. Micropython on a Pyboard is runnunig on bare metal with no OS. Micropython is very portable, and builds nicely on Linux, yielding a nice small-footprint Python. I am not aware of a build for Android, but it seems like it should be straightforward. Everything about Micropython is tuned for low memory footprint, so it might be…
But Android is based on Linux, i.e. it wouldn't allow MicroPython to run directly on the bare metal. So that would seem to make actual Python a better candidate for Android porting. I found http://qpython.com/ which seems interesting, but the site didn't look finished.
Python indeed runs fine on Android once you can get it to compile (the interpreter needs to be patched to compile with bionic, or can be compiled without patches using the CrystaX NDK). The Kivy graphical framework has the associated python-for-android project [1] taking care of doing this plus including other components like Python modules (including complex ones like numpy) and can compile with different kinds of backend (not just Kivy). There are also other projects running Python on Android in different ways.
Re: MicroPython, a few years on
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
first, lets be clear about Micropython, the software versus PyBoard, the reference hardware. Micropython on a Pyboard is runnunig on bare metal with no OS. Micropython is very portable, and builds nicely on Linux, yielding a nice small-footprint Python. I am not aware of a build for Android, but it seems like it should be straightforward. Everything about Micropython is tuned for low memory footprint, so it might be…
But Android is based on Linux, i.e. it wouldn't allow MicroPython to run directly on the bare metal. So that would seem to make actual Python a better candidate for Android porting. I found http://qpython.com/ which seems interesting, but the site didn't look finished.
Yes, it would run on Android the way it runs on Lunux, as an OS process. The benefit is extreme parsimony with respect to RAM use.
Re: MicroPython, a few years on
#9Can micropython be used to make Android apps?
You'd be better off trying to to use Jython (which compiles Python to JVM bytecode) because that would give you interop with Android's Java libraries.
Re: MicroPython, a few years on
#10Can micropython be used to make Android apps?
You'd be better off trying to to use Jython (which compiles Python to JVM bytecode) because that would give you interop with Android's Java libraries.
I'm not aware of anyone having succeeded with Jython - I think there are technical issues but I'm not sure what's the nature of the problem.
One option for interacting with java from python is to use tools like pyjnius (http://pyjnius.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - this is what e.g. Kivy does to get system information like screen metrics.