kivy create a package for Android

Now that you've successfully coded an app. Now you want to deploy it to Android.

So now we would need to have a look of this, from its official site:http://kivy.org/docs/guide/packaging.html

Let's check this out.

Mainly for Android . http://kivy.org/docs/guide/packaging-android.html

let's do it! It's so exciting!!!!

As it says, here's what we gonna need:

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This section describes how to download and use python-for-android directly.

You’ll need:

• A linux computer or virtual machine
• Java
• Python 2.7 (not 2.6.)
• Jinja2 (python module)
• Apache ant
• Android SDK

Setup Python for Android

First, install the prerequisites needed for the project:

http://python-for-android.readthedocs.org/en/latest/prerequisites/

Then open a console and type:

git clone git://github.com/kivy/python-for-android

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I am using Linuxmint 13 which is derived from Ubuntu12.04 the long-term guaranteed version.

So let's do this.

For this:

http://python-for-android.readthedocs.org/en/latest/prerequisites/

I would strongly recommend you can download this one: http://kivy.org/#download ( in the virtual machine section ). Just as what they said "A Virtual Machine with Android SDK and NDK and all other pre-requisites pre installed to ease apk generation:". Hope so.

Or you could just do as the link above to set your own environment. All we need is to build APK for android.

Summery:

1) Set the system enviroment pacakges

2) Install the prerequistes needed for the project

3) Build the app distribution in the terminal

Just follow the tutorial there: http://kivy.org/docs/guide/packaging-android.html

./distribute.sh -m "kivy"     ( just see that)

TestDrive here is a good trial.

http://kivy.org/#download Download that virtualbox image and try

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TestDrive

We provide a VirtualBox Image with python-for-android along with the Android SDK and NDK preinstalled to ease your installation woes. You can download it from here.

Once the VM is loaded, you can follow the instructions from Packaging your application into an APK. You don’t need to download with git clone though, as python-for-android is already installed and set up in the virtual machine home directory.

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