[Mobile-sig] support of the android platform

[Dima Tisnek]

http://pyjnius.readthedocs.io/en/latest/android.html#accessing-the-activity

seems pretty solid!

On 28 April 2016 at 10:01, Russell Keith-Magee <russell at keith-magee.com> wrote:
> (Apologies for the personal repost - I forgot to reply-all on the first
> attempt)
>
> Hi Xavier,
>
> Great stuff!
>
> I’ve got a question about your experience integrating with the native
> Android platform APIs.
>
> Getting CPython compiled as a native binary library is a huge step, but my
> experience has been that bridging between binary libraries and the
> Java/Dalvik APIs is a painful process - JNI *exists*, but it’s *really*
> slow, and has some pretty harsh limitations (like the kernel-imposed JNI
> reference count limit).
>
> For some applications, this won’t matter - for example, if you’re treating
> the android device as a low power server, something that is terminal only
> isn’t a problem. However, if you want to write a native app, then you need
> to be able to create an Activity, with a View, put a Button on it, and a
> Layout, and so on. Have you done any exploration of the binding to these
> native APIs?
>
> Also - are you going to be at PyCon US by any chance? If you are, I’d love
> to catch up and share notes.
>
> Yours,
> Russ Magee %-)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Xavier de Gaye <xdegaye at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Starting with API level 21 (Android 5.0), the build of python3 with the
>> official android toolchains (that is, without resorting to external
>> libraries
>> for wide character support) runs correctly.  With the set of patches
>> described
>> in the patches/Makefile file at [1], the cpython test suite runs[2] on the
>> android x86 and armv7 emulators with only few errors[3].  Those errors are
>> listed with their corresponding error messages, this may give a raw idea
>> of
>> the effort needed to support this platform.
>>
>> This post has been first submitted to python-dev as:
>> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-April/144320.html
>>
>> Xavier
>>
>> [1] https://bitbucket.org/xdegaye/pyona/src
>> [2] To reproduce these results, follow the instructions found in INSTALL
>>     at https://bitbucket.org/xdegaye/pyona/wiki/install
>> [3] https://bitbucket.org/xdegaye/pyona/wiki/testsuite
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