Programming languages: Python apps might soon be running on Android
Summary
He gave an update at the 2020 Python Language Summit, which was held online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. BeeWare is aiming to let developers write apps in Python and get that code running everywhere using user interface (UI) widgets. It wants to help developers write Python apps using the same codebase running on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, browsers, and tvOS. To address this shortcoming, last year the Python Software Foundation awarded the BeeWare project a $50,000 grant to bring its level of Android support up to par with its tools for iOS. Some have suggested solving this problem by creating a stripped-back kernel version of Python – an idea that Keith-Magee believes could solve many Python mobile challenges, in combination with a package installer (pip) that lets developers install packages for a target platform rather than just the system its running on.