Kivy

This 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 Linu...

For 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 ...

I’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 f...

We’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 ... [More] everyone involved! 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 including Kivy, PySDL2, a webview interface with Flask or other webserver backend, plain Python scripts without a GUI, or other possibilities such as Python builds for use in other applications. As planned following the release of python-for-android 0.5, the new version includes some relatively major changes and improvements. In particular, python-for-android should now work with all recent versions of the Android SDK and NDK. On the SDK side this means python-for-android now uses gradle if available, although this doesn’t require any changes to the configuration on the user side. For full instructions and further information, see the python-for-android documentation. Continue reading → [Less]

We’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 ... [More] everyone involved! 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 including Kivy, PySDL2, a webview interface with Flask or other webserver backend, plain Python scripts without a GUI, or other possibilities such as Python builds for use in other applications. As planned following the release of python-for-android 0.5, the new version includes some relatively major changes and improvements. In particular, python-for-android should now work with all recent versions of the Android SDK and NDK. On the SDK side this means python-for-android now uses gradle if available, although this doesn’t require any changes to the configuration on the user side. For full instructions and further information, see the python-for-android documentation. [Less]

We’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 ... [More] to everyone involved! 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 including Kivy, PySDL2, a webview interface with Flask or other webserver backend, plain Python scripts without a GUI, or other possibilities such as Python builds for use in other applications. This release contains many fixes and improvements to all parts of the toolchain. Now that these have been released as stable, we intend to move quickly to make some larger improvements including supporting gradle builds, and better support for Python 3 in some recipes. For full instructions and further information, see the python-for-android documentation. Continue reading → [Less]

We’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 ... [More] to everyone involved! 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 including Kivy, PySDL2, a webview interface with Flask or other webserver backend, plain Python scripts without a GUI, or other possibilities such as Python builds for use in other applications. This release contains many fixes and improvements to all parts of the toolchain. Now that these have been released as stable, we intend to move quickly to make some larger improvements including supporting gradle builds, and better support for Python 3 in some recipes. For full instructions and further information, see the python-for-android documentation. [Less]

I’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 ... [More] release is a file browser interface, which gives Pyonic the ability to load and execute files in the interpreter. This is mildly useful on its own, and I’ve had comments that people would like to be able to do it, but it’s also groundwork for full support for file editing support. I hope to add these features in a future version. [Less]

I’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 ... [More] release is a file browser interface, which gives Pyonic the ability to load and execute files in the interpreter. This is mildly useful on its own, and I’ve had comments that people would like to be able to do it, but it’s also groundwork for full support for file editing support. I hope to add these features in a future version. Continue reading → [Less]

I’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 de bownloaded directly from Github (where the source code is also available). This is the first release to ... [More] target Python 3.6 on Android (not just Python 3.5), which is made possible by recent additions to python-for-android. I expect to do a separate python-for-android release to announce this shortly. The main change to the app this release is support for the input and (in Python 2) raw_input functions. These would previously crash as the interpreter isn’t really being run in a shell, so the way they try to take input doesn’t work. They are now overridden with new replacements, which should hopefully behave roughly the same way as the originals are supposed to, but via a more convenient popup gui for the text to be entered. I’m still working on file editing and other Python management functions, but there didn’t seem to be any reason to delay a release since according to the Google Play reviews people are trying and failing to use the input functions. Continue reading → [Less]