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@mborus@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

I'm beginning to love 馃悵 @beeware for #Python for Android development.

2 reasons.

The build process to get an Android app running from scratch is working even if you (like me) know nothing about Java and Android. There's a tutorial telling you all steps.

Interacting with Java (to access hardware features outside of the scope of #Beeware) was a pain to get working (for me), but that now it does, I'm confident that I won't be show stopped later.

See example: https://github.com/mborus/can-beeware-for-android-bridge-to-java

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@mborus@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Why do I want to use Python on Android anyway? Mainly because for me Android development is a side quest - I need simple forms for data entry and so some hardware stuff like scanning bar codes, getting location and network information and printing to bluetooth (the last one is not solved yet)

We used to do these on WindowsCE, but nowadays all the new hardware is Android.

Coding all screens and logic in a language that I (and the device users) already understand is a huge time saver...

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