Can I write native iPhone, Android, Windows, Blackberry apps using Python? [duplicate]

Question

Is possible to develop Android and iOS mobile applications in Python? I am a newcomer in mobile applications and want to develop mobile applications in Python.

Mistrial

Already discussed in previous thread. check for reference – Refuel

Possibly, but it wouldn't be "native". – Lanni

Answer 1

Yes you can use kivy

This is a nice cross platform python framework which works for Android, Win7, Linux, Mac. iOS is possibile but very trivial as Apple doesn't allow scripting.

And for Android Google provides something called ASE (Android Scripting Environment) which allows scripting languages (Python included) to run on Android. More details here

For iOS Python development would be to embed a Python interpreter into you app and distribute your Python script with it (so to play nicely with Apple rules). In this case your Python application would be a Python interpreter which is packaged with your script and runs it automatically. As I've said - it ain't pretty You can check details Here

Hope it helps you.

Essentiality

but for android at the end of application development ,testing will only allow in android(java) or unit testing (python) ? – Mistrial

A better way is to compile down python code top C using cython and use it as a library. link to the C code from Obj-C – Megawatt

He said native applications. – Oleander

Answer 2

Not out of the box. The final product needs to be compiled (iOS) or in bytecode (Android). Since it may be possible to convert Python code to Objective-C or something in between it might be possible.

See Kivy — the previous thread referenced it. This allows you to write you app in Python but probably uses a common wrapper (that Kivy provides) to run Python.

Please note that code written in Objective-C (iOS) or Java (Android) will always be faster than middle-ware like Kivy or Phonegap. Unless the one developing is very bad at writing any of those native languages....

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