Is there a way to run Python on Android?

Answer 1

Yet another attempt: https://code.google.com/p/android-python27/

This one embed directly the Python interpretter in your app apk.

Answer 2

One way is to use Kivy:

Open source Python library for rapid development of applications that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps.

Kivy runs on Linux, Windows, OS X, Android and iOS. You can run the same [python] code on all supported platforms.

Kivy Showcase app

Answer 3

Another option if you are looking for 3.4.2 or 3.5.1 is this archive on GitHub.

Python3-Android 3.4.2 or Python3-Android 3.5.1

It currently supports Python 3.4.2 or 3.5.1 and the 10d version of the NDK. It can also support 3.3 and 9c, 11c and 12

It's nice in that you simply download it, run make and you get the .so or the .a

I currently use this to run raw Python on android devices. With a couple modifications to the build files you can also make x86 and armeabi 64 bit

Answer 4

Termux

You can use the Termux app, which provides a POSIX environment for Android, to install Python.

Note that apt install python will install Python3 on Termux. For Python2, you need to use apt install python2.

• Some demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqqsl72mASE
• The GitHub project: https://github.com/termux

Answer 5

Didn't see this posted here, but you can do it with Pyside and Qt now that Qt works on Android thanks to Necessitas.

It seems like quite a kludge at the moment but could be a viable route eventually...

http://qt-project.org/wiki/PySide_for_Android_guide

Answer 6

Not at the moment and you would be lucky to get Jython to work soon. If you're planning to start your development now you would be better off with just sticking to Java for now on.