python-for-android is a packaging tool for Python apps on Android. You can create your own Python distribution including the modules and dependencies you want, and bundle it in an APK along with your own code.
python-for-android 2019.08.09 has just been released! I haven’t been making a blog …
read morepython-for-android is a packaging tool for Python apps on Android. You can create your own Python distribution including the modules and dependencies you want, and bundle it in an APK along with your own code.
python-for-android 2019.06.06 has just been released! This release contains 198 commits from 31 …
read moreThis guide describes how to turn your Kivy/Python app into an APK, by running the buildozer build tool in a virtual machine. This is not the only way to run buildozer, it can work natively on Linux or MacOS or be run from the Windows Subsystem for Linux. See …
read moreA few days ago I released Lazy Baduk, a Leela Zero analysis tool for Android. You can download it from Google Play, or directly from the Github release (see below).
Lazy Baduk focuses on making it as easy as possible to start entering and analysing moves with Leela Zero, with …
read moreFor the last 3 days several of the Kivy Core Developers gathered in Brussels, Belgium for the first ever core developer hackathon. Not only is this the first time we’ve gathered to work on Kivy framework issues, but for most of us the first time we’ve ever met …
read moreI’ve more than once seen people confused by how python-for-android constructs an Android project that can be compiled into an APK. Since p4a uses various cached and templated files, it’s easy to get confused trying to edit things only to find your changes are overwritten when you run …
read moreWe’ve just officially released python-for-android 0.6. The new version can be downloaded via pip, or will be used by buildozer automatically in new installations. This release contains about 130 new commits from 14 different contributors. Thanks to everyone involved!
python-for-android is a packaging tool for turning Python scripts …
read moreWe’ve just officially released python-for-android 0.5. The new version can be downloaded via pip, or will be used by buildozer automatically in new installations. This release contains about 300 commits from almost 40 different contributors. Thanks to everyone involved!
python-for-android is a packaging tool for turning Python scripts …
read moreI’ve just released Pyonic interpreter 1.3. As usual you can download it from Google Play, for Python 2.7 or Python 3.6. The APKs can also be downloaded directly from Github (where the source code is also available).
The main addition in this release is a file …
read moreI’ve just released Pyonic interpreter 1.2. As usual, you can get it from Google Play, now for Python 2.7 or Python 3.6. The APKs can also be downloaded directly from Github (where the source code is also available).
This is the first release to target Python …
read moreI’ve just released Pyonic interpreter 1.1. As usual, you can get it from Google Play for Python 2.7 or Python 3.5, or download the APKs directly from Github (where the source code is also available).
The major feature in this release is autocompletion support via the …
read moreI’ve just released Pyonic interpreter 1.0. You can get it from Google Play for Python 2.7 or Python 3.5, or download the APKs directly from Github (update: changed to v1.0.1 following a small bugfix).
The primary change in this release is that both APKs …
read morePyonic interpreter 0.7 has just been released. There are now two versions on Google Play, one for Python 2.7 and one for Python 3.5. The APKs are also available directly from Github. Other features in this release include a new settings screen and improved gui arrangement.
The …
read moreI’ve just released a new app, Pyonic Python 2 interpreter. Pyonic interpreter is a Python interpreter app for Android, providing a convenient interface adapted to mobile devices. The app itself is written entirely in Python using Kivy.
I put this together because I’ve always thought it would be …
read moreWe’ve just officially released python-for-android 0.4, and pushed it to PyPI for the first time!
python-for-android is a packaging tool for turning Python scripts and apps into Android APKs. It was originally created for use with the Kivy graphical framework, but now supports multiple kinds of Python app …
read morepython-for-android has just gained support for a new webview app interface, an alternative to the existing SDL2 or Pygame backends. Under this mode of operation the app gui consists entirely of a browser window directed to open a webpage on localhost, and the Python backend can then run any web …
read moreIt’s been a long time coming, but we can finally make the announcement… python-for-android now supports Python 3 Android apps! This naturally includes Kivy, but also should work for anything else you can package with python-for-android, such as apps made with PySDL2. Using Python 3 remains experimental for now …
read moreIt’s been a while since Kivy’s python-for-android project was revamped, so here’s a quick status update.
There have since been well over 200 commits from 15 different contributors, cleaning up the missing pieces of the new toolchain and adding new features that weren’t previously possible. Thanks …
read moreThis post is to announce that the revamped python-for-android toolchain, introduced in this previous post, has now been merged into python-for-android’s master branch. This is now the master branch going forward.
The revamp project is largely (but not quite) feature complete with the old toolchain, supporting almost all the …
read moreI’ve recently been working on a significantly revamped version of python-for-android, the Kivy-project tools that take a Python program and package it - along with any dependencies and the Python interpreter itself - into an Android APK that can be run and distributed just like a normal Android app. This rewrite …
read moreThere are an increasing number of resources about different ways of running Python on Android. Kivy (and its subprojects) are commonly mentioned, as one of the most mature and popular ways to do so, but one thing that gets less attention is the details of what you can do with …
read moreNew Kivy Crash Course video released, 12: Using Android APIs.
In this video I quickly cover 3 (related) ways to access Android’s APIs straight from Python, making it easy to use hardware features like the accelerometer as well as tasks like sending an email or displaying a notification. It …
read moreIn this writeup of my second Kivy Crash Course video, I describe how to use the buildozer tool to compile a Kivy application into a fully functional standalone Android APK. For reference, you can find the original video here.
This particular article may have some overlap/redundancy …