Difficulty deploying Django app on Android and iPhone.. planning on switching to PHP instead of Django

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user2817200 picture user2817200 · Oct 5, 2013 · Viewed 16.4k times · Source

Okay so I am 1/4th finished creating a django application (where users must register an account, log in and can interact with other users of the application, basically a social network. And the application has a PostgreSQL database). I decided to do research and figure out ways to actually host this django powered social network site on the internet and make it a mobile app which can be downloaded from the android and iphone appstore. I want to first host the site, so I looked for places to host it. I found webfaction.com and this links in particular

http://docs.webfaction.com/software/django/getting-started.html

which explains how to host the djnago application. Now, I did not read over it completely but I trust that I can host my social network django application using webfaction without going through a whole bunch of trouble. (please correct me if there is someone here who did try hosting a django application and had great difficulty).

After hosting it as a site, I also want it to be a mobile application which can be used on iPhones and Androids. Now, all I want to know is, what is the least complicated way of doing this properly? (because I'm guessing all ways will be pretty complicated.. I don't want a step by step tutorial on how to do it, a simple url to a documentation on how to do it is good enough). Will I need to learn PHP, C, Java or anything else or will I be able to do this with just knowing django and python? Note that this isn't just an application where users visit and read information, it's a social network.

I just need someone to confirm to me that deploying a social network created using django and hosting it on a site is possible and then taking that app and making it an Android and iOS app without have to completely recreate it with a different language is possible. If you can provide me a link to get me started on how to take am existing django app and make it an Android app without having to completely retype the app with a different language, that would be great.

Answer

Z-Mehn picture Z-Mehn · Oct 5, 2013

Simply put: you would create your web app (website) using Python+Django (for the back end) and HTML, JavaScript & CSS (for the front end). Once you've done this, you can make a very basic app for iOS and Android which is really just a browser window pointed to your website.

Google 'android webview' for some examples of embedding your site into an android app with Java (note this is a very basic way of doing it).

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