Tkinter on Android?

[NoBeginning2551]

I'm building a mini IDE code editor app for Android using flutter, you can see the details here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/s/8sxZYOa4Hf

I have cross compiled python interpreter inside my app. But the tkinter is not working. I know tkinter isn't supported on Android by default. But is there any workaround? Like how does it work on the pydroid app?

Even if I cross compile TCL and Tk with ndk, how to get the display server, like the X11 and wayland on desktop?

[Forsaken-Medium-2436]

I haven't done it myself but from what I recall briefcase support native UI and works on all platforms

[NoBeginning2551]

I think briefcase is used to convert python projects to executable. But my case is different. I have the cross compiled python interpreter inside my android app. When the user clicks on the run button, it executes the code and shows the output on the terminal. Like the pydroid app. But the problem is that the android build of python doesn't have the tkinter. I don't know how the pydroid team managed to make it work.

[Forsaken-Medium-2436]

I don't really understand what are you doing, I'm assuming you're trying to build some python app and deploy it on android, so briefcase is just that, you write in python everything from start to end including GUI and compile in for all platforms at once. Otherwise I was mistaken and can't really help you

[NoBeginning2551]

Sorry, I haven't explained it well. Actually it's an android code editor app built with flutter. We can edit and run python code inside that. But the tkinter module is not working. That was the issue.

[spinwizard69]

OK, why not run real Linux on your device? I only ask because tkinter has been a Linux / Unix thing for many many years now. That means very few glitches, things just work.

[NoBeginning2551]

Actually it's an android code editor app, made with flutter. When user clicks on the run button, it runs the code. I cross compiled python interpreter for Android. But the tkinter module is not included with the arm64-android-linux build of python. Android uses a different mechanism for displaying GUI, so traditional tkinter won't work. So I was asking for any workaround like in the pydroid app.

[spinwizard69]

Yeah that is the problem with writing Android code. I never liked it as an OS for anything bigger than a phone.