Python for android is a project to create your own Python distribution including the modules you want, and create an apk including python, libs, and your application.
- Website: http://python-for-android.rtfd.org/
- Forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=fr#!forum/python-android
- Mailing list: python-android@googlegroups.com
Download Android NDK, SDK
Launch "android", and download latest Android platform, here API 14, which would be Android 4.0
Export some environment variables:
export ANDROIDSDK="/path/to/android/android-sdk-linux_86" export ANDROIDNDK="/path/to/android/android-ndk-r8c" export ANDROIDNDKVER=r8c export ANDROIDAPI=14
(Of course correct the paths mentioned in ANDROIDSDK and ANDROIDNDK)
Clone python-for-android:
git clone git://github.com/kivy/python-for-android
Build a distribution with OpenSSL module, PIL and Kivy:
cd python-for-android ./distribute.sh -m "openssl pil kivy"
Go to your fresh distribution, build the APK of your application:
cd dist/default ./build.py --package org.test.touchtracer --name touchtracer \ --version 1.0 --dir ~/code/kivy/examples/demo/touchtracer debug
Install the debug apk to your device:
adb install bin/touchtracer-1.0-debug.apk
Enjoy.
If you get the following message:
Android NDK: Host 'awk' tool is outdated. Please define HOST_AWK to point to Gawk or Nawk !
a solution is to remove the "awk" binary in the android ndk distribution:
rm $ANDROIDNDK/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin/awk