Python: Detect Android

Question

I\'m surprised to find very little info on this topic. I want to detect if a user is running Android. I\'m using:

platform.dist()

This perf

Answer 1

You can do this with Kivy

from kivy.utils import platform

if platform == 'android':
    # do something

EDIT:

As I said, I cannot use any 3rd party libs

Take a look at how Kivy implemented it.

def _get_platform():
    # On Android sys.platform returns 'linux2', so prefer to check the
    # presence of python-for-android environment variables (ANDROID_ARGUMENT
    # or ANDROID_PRIVATE).
    if 'ANDROID_ARGUMENT' in environ:
        return 'android'

Answer 2

System name is returned 'Linux' because Android is also based on the Linux Kernel.Android is the name of the distro but deep down its linux.