Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: python-for-android
Version: 0.7.0
Summary: Android APK packager for Python scripts and apps
Home-page: https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android
Author: The Kivy team
Author-email: kivy-dev@googlegroups.com
License: MIT
Description: python-for-android
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        python-for-android is a packager for Python apps on Android. You can
        create your own Python distribution including the modules and
        dependencies you want, and bundle it in an APK along with your own code.
        
        Features include:
        
        -  Support for building with both Python 2 and Python 3.
        -  Different app backends including Kivy, PySDL2, and a WebView with
           Python webserver.
        -  Automatic support for most pure Python modules, and built in support
           for many others, including popular dependencies such as numpy and
           sqlalchemy.
        -  Multiple architecture targets, for APKs optimised on any given
           device.
        
        For documentation and support, see:
        
        -  Website: http://python-for-android.readthedocs.io
        -  Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kivy-users or
           https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/python-android.
        
        In 2015 these tools were rewritten to provide a new, easier to use and
        extend interface. If you are looking for the old toolchain with
        distribute.sh and build.py, it is still available at
        https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/tree/old\_toolchain, and
        issues and PRs relating to this branch are still accepted. However, the
        new toolchain contains all the same functionality via the built in
        pygame bootstrap.
        
        In the last quarter of 2018 the python recipes has been changed, the new recipe
        for python3 (3.7.1) has a new build system which has been applied to the ancient
        python recipe, allowing us to bump the python2 version number to 2.7.15. This
        change, unifies the build process for both python recipes, and probably solve
        some issues detected over the years, but unfortunately, this change breaks the
        pygame bootstrap (in a near future we will fix it or remove it). Also should be
        mentioned that the old python recipe is still usable, and has been renamed to
        `python2legacy`. This `python2legacy` recipe allow us to build with a minimum
        api lower than 21, which is not the case for the new python recipes which are
        limited to a minimum api of 21. All this work has been done using android ndk
        version r17c, and your build should success with that version...but be aware
        that the project is in constant development so...the ndk version will change
        at some time.
        
        Those mentioned changes has been done this way to make easier the transition
        between python3 and python2. We will slowly phase out python2 support
        towards 2020...so...if you are using python2 in your projects you should
        consider to migrate it into python3.
        
        Documentation
        =============
        
        Follow the `quickstart
        instructions <https://python-for-android.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart/>`__
        to install and begin creating APKs.
        
        Quick instructions to start would be::
        
            pip install python-for-android
        
        or to test the master branch::
        
            pip install git+https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android.git
        
        The executable is called ``python-for-android`` or ``p4a`` (both are
        equivalent). To test that the installation worked, try::
        
            python-for-android recipes
        
        This should return a list of recipes available to be built.
        
        To build any distributions, you need to set up the Android SDK and NDK
        as described in the documentation linked above.
        
        If you did this, to build an APK with SDL2 you can try e.g.::
        
            p4a apk --requirements=kivy --private /home/asandy/devel/planewave_frozen/ --package=net.inclem.planewavessdl2 --name="planewavessdl2" --version=0.5 --bootstrap=sdl2
        
        For full instructions and parameter options, see `the
        documentation <https://python-for-android.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart/#usage>`__.
        
        Support
        =======
        
        If you need assistance, you can ask for help on our mailing list:
        
        -  User Group: https://groups.google.com/group/kivy-users
        -  Email: kivy-users@googlegroups.com
        
        We also have `#support Discord channel <https://chat.kivy.org/>`_.
        
        Contributing
        ============
        
        We love pull requests and discussing novel ideas. Check out our
        `contribution guide <http://kivy.org/docs/contribute.html>`__ and feel
        free to improve python-for-android.
        
        The following mailing list and IRC channel are used exclusively for
        discussions about developing the Kivy framework and its sister projects:
        
        -  Dev Group: https://groups.google.com/group/kivy-dev
        -  Email: kivy-dev@googlegroups.com
        
        We also have `#dev Discord channel <https://chat.kivy.org/>`_.
        
        License
        =======
        
        python-for-android is released under the terms of the MIT License.
        Please refer to the LICENSE file.
        
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Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
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Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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