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

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ParasDevD picture ParasDevD · May 5, 2013 · Viewed 67.7k times · Source

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.

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Nishant Tyagi picture Nishant Tyagi · May 5, 2013

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.

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