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 * Although Android's primary programming language is Java, there is no known port of [[Jython]] to the platform. Android support in !BeeWare was originally achieved using VOC, a tool that compiles Python source code to Java class files. However, recent work has focused on [[https://beeware.org/news/buzz/python-on-android-its-alive/|a CPython-based implementation]] instead of VOC.  * Although Android's primary programming language is Java, there is no known port of [[Jython]] to the platform.

There are several ways to use Python on Android. The following table summarizes those projects which are currently active:

Project

General

APIs

Build

Python versions

Open-source

Google Play links

User interface

Other Android APIs

Java-to-Python integration

Native Python packages

Standalone Android APK

iOS

Desktop OSs

BeeWare is a collection of tools for building native user interfaces.

3.4+

Yes

None

Native Android

All

Yes

None

Yes

Yes

Yes

Chaquopy is a plugin for Android Studio's Gradle-based build system.

3.8

No

Demo

Native Android

All

Yes

List

Yes

No

No

Kivy is a cross-platform OpenGL-based user interface toolkit.

2.7, 3.5, 3.6

Yes

Demo

Kivy

All via PyJNIus, or some via Plyer

No

List

Yes

Yes

Yes

pyqtdeploy is a tool for deploying PyQt applications.

3.6

Yes

None

Qt

Any exposed by Qt

No

Some

Yes

Yes

Yes

QPython is an on-device script engine and development environment.

2.7, 3.2, 3.6

Yes

Python 2
Python 3

Kivy, SL4A

All via PyJNIus, or some via SL4A

No

List

No

No

No

Termux is a Linux distribution for Android that ships Python as well as a local build environment

2.7, 3.6

Yes

Termux
Termux:API (command-line wrappers)

Terminal

Via command line wrappers

No

Any where dependencies are packaged

No

No

No

In addition, there are a number of projects which are inactive or incomplete:

  • SL4A (Scripting Layer for Android), originally named ASE (Android Scripting Environment), is a set of "facades" which expose a greatly-simplified subset of the Android API. The project was originally developed within Google, but is no longer supported by them. However, a fork of the library is distributed with QPython.
  • PySide (the Python binding for the Qt toolkit) has some preliminary support for Android.

  • Although Android's primary programming language is Java, there is no known port of Jython to the platform.

Android (last edited 2024-02-07 13:18:35 by MalcolmSmith)

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