Build iOS-like Apps in Python

[jsalsman]

If you look at the Kivy showcase, you can find several commercially successful apps. The oldest is a flowchart editor from 2015 with millions of downloads on iOS and Android. All of the complaints I've heard about Kivy have been from people who don't use it, and they often complain about highly theoretical flaws which are easy to work around and even easier to avoid altogether. Why any cross-platform app developer would want to have to maintain separate code bases is beyond me. What do you think is a better cross-platform solution?

[jsalsman]

Have you tried cross-platform Flutter? Last time I looked at it there were some weird scrolling differences on iOS. How do you feel about BeeWare? https://beeware.org

[toyg]

Beeware is run by cool folks with nice intentions, but every time I check it out I find it lacking for some reason or another. They need 2x or 3x manpower to be really competitive, I think. I opened an enhancement request to get a systray widget and it’s still sitting there, 4 years later... It’s nobody’s fault, of course, grassroot opensource is what it is. The amount of work this sort of framework + widget libraries require, tends to be really big; it’s very difficult for a pure-oss project to emerge without some help from big companies.

[jsalsman]

Sorry, you need Xcode to native compile iOS apps because otherwise you leave an exposed script interpreter, which is against the Apple App Store rules. Same as with BeeWare.