You can code and test under your local environment (Windows/*nix etc.), you can also build, debug and package your app to run on your Android/iOS/Mac/Windows devices. The biggest selling point of Kivy, in my opinion, is its cross-platform compatibility. It has been years since then, and Kivy has evolved to v1.9-dev. I want to post this as an extension of what has already answered ( but please bear with me as English isn't my first language) The main SL4A project itself is pretty much dead. Note that QPython still develop their fork of SL4A (though, not much to be honest). QPython also bundles libraries from a bunch of Python on Android projects, including Kivy, so it is not just SL4A. Both versions are available from the Play Store, free of charge. QPython gives you a nicer UI to manage your installation, and includes a little, touchscreen code editor, a Python shell, and a PIP shell for package management. It builds on SL4A, and throws in some other useful stuff.

There is a third party project named QPython. You can mix options, so you can have a webview for the main interface, and still use native dialogues. Sure how well it works I just haven't ever used it.

There is some support for native Android user interfaces, but I am not.

The UI will not be native, but it is still a good option to Messages back and forth, between the webview and the Python process that When you use webviews from Python, you can pass

You can also open a webview from inside a Python script, then use HTML5įor the user interface.

This is good for confirmation dialogues and other basic user inputs.

You can easily use the generic, native dialogues and menus through theĪPI.

let droid = new Android() įor user interfaces, you have three options: You can even use the JavaScript API inside webviews.

from android import Androidĭroid.ttsSpeak('hello world') # example using the text to speech facadeĮach language has pretty much the same API. The library provides an interface to the underlying Android API through a single Android object. SL4A provides a port of their android library for each supported language. I have used that port for all kinds of things on a Galaxy S2 and it worked fine. By default, it uses Python 2.6, but there is a 3.2 port you can use instead. You can easily install it directly onto your device from their site, and do not need root.

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