Future of python on android

Billy Earney billy.earney at gmail.com
Thu Dec 25 11:35:53 EST 2014


try kivy, instead of sl4a http://kivy.org/

I believe in the past year or two, the python foundation gave a grant to
kivy to add further functionality..

According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum  Guido
works for dropbox.

Billy

On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Fetchinson . <fetchinson at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was using sl4a for quite some time on android and it basically
> worked very well although some features are missing. It looks like
> sl4a is dead, although I could be wrong. Does anyone knowledgeable
> have any further info on the future of sl4a? For instance it doesn't
> work with android 5 and there doesn't seem to be any activity around
> it for the past couple of years.
>
> If sl4a is out, what's the preferred way of running python on android?
> Guido is still working at google, right? This makes me suspect that
> python is ought to be part of the android ecosystem but can't find
> anything else beyond sl4a.
>
> So what's the future proof way of writing/deploying/installing python
> programs on android?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
>
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