Re: python for android anyone?
rusi wrote:
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Any specific tips will of course be welcome
< but also the general idea
-- is android really python friendly (yet)?
You might take a look at Kivy ....
http://kivy.org/
"It is built with Cython ( C extensions for Python )
and, in order to create apps, Python knowledge
is required.
The platforms currently supported are Linux, Windows,
Mac OS X and Android."
The gallery is impressive ....
http://kivy.org/#gallery
I have very limited experience with Kivy
using Debian Linux as the development platform
and installing a couple of simple demo apps
on an ArchOS tablet running Android ICS ....
Back at the first of this month I had problems
trying to build android packages using
the newest versions of the android sdk / ndk packages
on Debian ....
Advice at the time was to drop back a version and try again
or wait for kivy versioning to catch up a bit ....
--
Stanley C. Kitching
Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona
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