python-for-android

I remember running kali linux once on my phone with (termux+vnc) and a vnc viewer app watching some random youtube videos a few years back So I feel like, Something like this was/is possible but its immensely hard for something like this being used especially when a desktop os on a phone is so bad ergonomically speaking unless you have a keyboard mouse connected A better option iirc is to use something like kivy[0] directly with termux, not sure if java might have direct options too or not. [0]: https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android

There is a galaxy of projects around Kivy, such as https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android to compile python project for Android (with Kivy or not) or https://plyer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ for cross plateform API (notifications, hardware, filechooser, etc). For UI there is https://github.com/kivymd/KivyMD for Material design on top of Kivy. And the team is nice (I've met some of them at PyCon or FOSDEM). The framework is pleasant to use, and there is a descriptive language, kv, which is really great. Cross compiling may be painful though (I did it for Android) and the app loading time is a bit long, but it's working. Some things may be missing in comparison to big frameworks such as Qt, there is no WebView for instance, and accessibility is unfortunately not as good. It's overall a very good project and it's a pity that it's not more

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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. [1] https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android

I'm playing with Kivy and Buildozer. Its important to begin with Kivy pre-built VM otherwise it will be hard to setup things up on your own. btw, anyone succeeded in adding python-fabric recipe to https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android ?

The actual apk can be as small as 5-6mb, but yes it's too big. Ideally common files to all Kivy applications (the python runtime and libraries) would only exist once, but that's a problem people can't quite agree how to solve. https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/issues/202

You can write in Python for Android, in case you're considering changing your phone so you can write in Python for it: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/06/introducing-an... http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android