On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:11:24 +0100 Johannes Findeisen wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:12:23 +1100 > Chris Angelico wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 3:57 AM, Johannes Findeisen <mail...@hanez.org> > > wrote: > > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:57:02 +1100 > > > Chris Angelico wrote: > > > > > >> Does anyone have experience with running Python scripts on Android > > >> phones? I have a brother (honestly! I'm not actually using a phone > > >> myself!) who's trying to run one of my scripts in QPython, which > > >> claims to be version 3.2.2. I think that really truly is a Python 3.2 > > >> implementation - probing for newer features suggests that it actually > > >> doesn't even support the u"..." syntax that came (back) in with Python > > >> 3.3. So... does anyone know of a Python interpreter that's compatible > > >> with 3.4 or better and runs on Android? > > >> > > > > > > There is an App for Android called "Pydroid 3". You can find it in > > > the Google Play Store [0]. It provides a Python interpreter in version > > > 3.6.2 in its current release. > > > > > > The Python binary is installed under > > > > > > /data/user/0/ru.iiec.pydroid3/files/arm-linux-androideabi/bin/python > > > > > > but I can not access it in a normal terminal without being user "root" > > > but it is usable from within the terminal included in the Pydroid App. > > > > Many thanks for all the suggestions. Pydroid is the one that has > > worked; he's now able to run stuff happily from the terminal. Next > > step is to create an icon that invokes it, but that's looking rather > > harder (probably means I'm going to have to learn Kivy, and I already > > have no shortage of projects...). Everything's working in the terminal > > (even a read-write $HOME, which we didn't have previously), and I'm > > pretty happy with that! > > > > All suggestions were read and are appreciated, even though I'm only > > quoting the one we ended up going with. Thank you Kirill, MRAB, Abdur, > > and Johannes! > > You're welcome! > > Take a look at the "Kivy Launcher" App for Android if You don't want to > do deep learning of Kivy. With this App You can just copy some > Python code to the Kivy launcher directory "/sdcard/kivy/<YOURAPPNAME>" > and execute it with just one click without packaging your own APK file. > > Don't know which Python version is included in Kivy Launcher and believe > it is 2.7. but it think Kivy will go over to Python 3.* in the near > future.
I forgot the link to the documentation... https://kivy.org/docs/guide/packaging-android.html#packaging-your-application-for-kivy-launcher Johannes -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
