headless python app for android/ios

[Robin Becker]

In the past we have developed reportlab applications for use on android/ios 
devices. We used Kivy for the gui and the kivy setup did allow us to create a 
working reportlab pdf producer under the kivy gui. It was not exactly easy, but 
in the end we had a working PDF producer.

A possible requirement is for pdf production using reportlab, but with others 
providing the gui using possible something called electron.

I know very little about what is actually possible to provide api's in python 
under ios/android. Can the front end spawn a python process or must we run some 
kind of background app with  listening sockets etc etc? Can applications call 
out to the world to download updated templates and so on?

Any pointers would be useful.
-- 
Robin Becker