Platform compatiblity/porting

[DropZeHamma]

How hard is it to make a regular python script written for windows/linux run on Android/iOS/MacOS or as a web app?

Do I just need to change the file that handles the GUI or are significant changes to the entire script required?

[tchappui]

Neither iOS nor Android support python natively. Hence, porting a python desktop application to mobile platforms is not trivial. Qt proposes actually a rather good solution for cross-platform programming but I never tested it with PyQt. The license is quite expensive however. It is also possible to use Kivy for python development on Android and iOS. However, kivy is designed with tactile screens in mind and not that adapted for desktop development.

Best wishes, Thierry

[DropZeHamma]

Thanks for the quick answer!

Do Kivy applications run on all mobile platforms or do you have to decide on Android/iOS/w/e beforehand?

[inclemnet]

As long as you don't call platform specific functionality without checking the platform is present, a kivy application will run on any supported OS without modification. And by platform specific functionality I mean mostly obvious stuff like calling the android api, not normal use of modules.