[Mobile-sig] opensource.com article about Python on Android

[jacob kruger]

Hi there


Will just mention that while haven't tried out kivy for quite a while, 
if, as I think, it uses tkinter, then it would be a no-go from my side.


And, FWIW, that's since I am myself a 100% blind software developer, 
and, certain forms of GUI modules don't cooperate too well with 
assisstive technology such as screenreaders.


This is also where the command line interaction with beeware and it's 
briefcase suit me nicely, as well as where the toga layout-by-code also 
suits me in terms of the development process, and, the first thing I 
made sure of was that the generated android app was accessible while 
working with the android talkback screen reading software.


In other words, might try out kivy again, but, otherwise, beeware is 
probably going to be my channel of choice for now, although this is all 
a form of private/after-hours area of focus... 😊


Jacob Kruger
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On 2020-11-14 11:43 AM, Gabriel Pettier wrote:
> It might still be worth saying (as i'm often surprised by this not being
> more known) that Kivy is able and used by a lot of people to develop
> Android applications in Python, with the same widgets whatever the
> platform, so you can develop and test your application on desktop
> (Win/OSX/Linux) directly, and know that it will look and behave the same
> on Android (and IOS), then package/deploy it to the target platform
> using buildozer. (for IOS a mac with xcode is still required, for
> Android either Linux, or OSX, or WSL in windows can be used).
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 04:26:19PM +0300, poya ghiami wrote:
>> Hello All
>> I do it with toga and briefcase and make 2 sample app with it
>> But there are some problems in GUI when converting to apk
>> I think the biggest challenge about GUI on Android is the existence of
>> libraries that will not be used most of the time, and I have seen 
>> this in
>> many other languages and no one is working on it.
>> But the idea of flex on Android is very good, I will try it
>> My idea is that each program is able to host and serve both
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 2:21 PM David Boddie <david at boddie.org.uk> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu Nov 12 03:56:35 EST 2020, jacob kruger wrote:
>>>
>>> > I had actually forgotten about this mailing list, and, on this note,
>>> > just been playing around with beeware, which lets you use 
>>> layout-by-code
>>> > and a module called briefcase, to package the same python code for
>>> > multiple platforms, including android:
>>> >
>>> > https://beeware.org/
>>>
>>> Can you share your experiences with Beeware to make an Android 
>>> application?
>>>
>>> I think it's useful to have an idea of what people have done because it
>>> gives
>>> others an idea of what is possible, and it potentially shows them 
>>> the steps
>>> they need to take to achieve something similar.
>>>
>>> David
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