Future of python on android

[Fetchinson .]

On 12/25/14, Billy Earney <billy.earney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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..

Thanks, I didn't know about kivy but it looks quite nice, will give it a try!
Hopefully it will be around for a while and won't evaporate like sl4a :)

Cheers,
Daniel


> 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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