Release 2019.07.08

python-for-android is a packager for Python apps on Android. You can create your own Python distribution including the modules and dependencies you want, and bundle it in an APK along with your own code.

Features include:

• Support for building with both Python 2 and Python 3.
• Different app backends including Kivy, PySDL2, and a WebView with Python webserver.
• Automatic support for most pure Python modules, and built in support for many others, including popular dependencies such as numpy and sqlalchemy.
• Multiple architecture targets, for APKs optimised on any given device.

This release contains 38 commits from 9 different contributors.

Changelog

Core functionality

[#1898]: Fixed run_pymodules_install when project_dir missing
[#1877]: Fixed ctypes find_library under python2
[#1871]: Fixed hostpython build path env var
[#1862]: Fixed various setup.py bugs
[#1852]: Fixed pythonpackage wheel handling
[#1845]: Fixed unpacking for non-zip archives

Recipes

[#1892]: Updated numpy recipe to 1.16.4
[#1870]: Removed legacy version of openssl recipe
[#1857]: Added --without-bzip2 to freetype config

Tests

[#1899]: Added run_pymodules_install test
[#1872]: Added unittest for bootstrap module
[#1864]: Made tox jobs run in parallel
[#1855]: Added unittest for util module
[#1856]: Fixed locating python when not in $PATH
[#1847]: Added unittest for distribution module
[#1840]: Added an arm64-v8a CI test
[#1842]: Added unittest for archs module

Documentation

[#1880]: Doc typo fix
[#1863]: Updated README about api levels
[#1849]: Improved release model doc
[#1851]: Fixed pypi readme format