Comments on: Python on Android? First impressions of Kivy

By: xyproto

xyproto — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:41:20 +0000

Yes, that might work, but it’s not The Arch Way ™ ;)

By: Wes Mason

Wes Mason — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:15:51 +0000

Might I suggest putting that in a virtualenv instead? With python linked to arch’s python2 symlink, rather than modifying source.

By: tshirtman

tshirtman — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:32:56 +0000

Sorry for late reply, yes, subsequent launches are faster.

By: xyproto

xyproto — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:29:01 +0000

Remember to export ANDROIDAPI as well.

By: xyproto

xyproto — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:37:20 +0000

To make kivy-for-android work on Arch Linux, replace /usr/bin/env python with /usr/bin/env python2 (or just /usr/bin/python2) everywhere. Then replace cython with cython2 (and make sure cython2 is installed). This made ./distribute.sh -m ‘kivy’ work here. gl.

By: James

James — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:47:28 +0000

Why couldn’t you just pre-compile it to get rid of that startup time?

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By: aspidites

aspidites — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:27:20 +0000

Nice to see another Archer using Kivy. As I just got a GN, it’s even nicer to see that it plays nicely with that phone.

I must say I didn’t have the same issues when installing Kivy, but this might simply be because I wasn’t using virtenv. I wonder if in the port to 3.3 will assist in that regard.

It may be worth while opening an issue about the splash screen, too.

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