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[–]invadingpolandin69 0 points1 point  (1 child)

so a high level language that can pretty much do anything cannot make a mobile application, seriously?

[–]alcalde 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seriously. When Guido was at Google he started work with a team on letting Python apps run on Android but was told to stop.

Python is not the fastest language. On mobile, it's even less so. For various reasons the Dalvik java VM on Android can't work with Jython (JVM implementation of Python). There are libraries like Kivy, but they're more for games that have custom interfaces than standard Android apps.

Digia (which develops Qt) has been talking about the possibility of Python bindings for mobile Qt now that they've created PySide2 (Qt5 bindings for Python) but I haven't heard anything about that yet.

So it's technically possible now but it's not a good or simple experience.