PyQt on Android

Question

I\'m working on PyQt now, and I have to create the application on Android, I\'ve seen the kivy library, but it\'s too crude.

Is there any way now to run an applicati

Answer 1

With the tool pyqtdeploy you can deploy a PyQt5 app to:

• Windows
• GNU/Linux
• Mac OS X
• Android
• iOS

Click here to see pyqtdeploy's documentation. It is a GUI tool that will package your PyQt5 application and compile it for the target platform.

It lets you select various Qt modules to include in the compilation:

On the command-line you would use the pyqtdeploy-build command like this:

pyqtdeploy-build pyqt-demo.pdy

Back in June 2016, there was a mailing list message that indicated that pyqtdeploy works. It's 2018 as I'm writing this so I assume pyqtdeploy has matured; the latest package version is 2.0.1 which was released on 5 January 2018.

Answer 2

Android does not support pyQt4. PyQt5 is however supported(read this: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-scripting/HUbyuYnm3Z8). However, you could port you application to use PySide(https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PySide). It provides bindings for the Qt4 platform. You can then use pyside-android(http://thp.io/2011/pyside-android/).