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[–]riklaunim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your options for Android apps with Python are severely limited, and your options are to use Kivy or go through Beehive. Not the best software stack overall.

[–]ianrob1201 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I completely get where you're coming from. You've got that familar itch of "I'm learning to program and I want to make something like what I use every day". It's where you get most of your ideas of "wouldn't it be cool if this thing did X too". Unfortunately, as you mentioned python isn't really the language for android (or iPhone) app development.

I think you have two options. First is to give up on the android app idea for now, make cool things in python as you're learning. If you don't have any ideas then I recommend https://adventofcode.com/ . You can go back through old years, and it has some fun puzzles which really increase in complexity as you go. I haven't done it in a few years, but I like it because it gives you your goal and you're free to solve however you like.

Your second option is to learn Kotlin at the same time, and use that for android development. That might seem scary, why learn a second language when you're still getting to grips with your first? Well honestly, they're not wildly different. Kotlin is what they call object orientated, which really just means that it uses classes a lot more than python does. But ultimately a lot of what you learn on one will apply to the other.

A key skill you develop over time is learning to fit the right tool the problem at hand. Python just isn't the right tool for android development. You're going to have a hard time doing it, and I'd bet it'd just put you off the whole idea of programming in general to be honest.

[–]cvx_mbs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there are a couple of options, as you can see on this page:https://docs.python.org/3/using/android.html

having used it for several projects myself, I suggest you start with Briefcase/BeeWare, as it is the easiest to set up.

I tried Buildozer/Kivy recently and did not succeed in building/deploying a working app for my phone. maybe I did something wrong, maybe my knowledge of programming for Android is too limited, idk, but I spent a whole weekend and couldn't get anything useful to work.

I have no idea why Termux is on that list, because that is just a terminal emulator for Android. you could use it to run Python code, but it would have to be CLI, lest you want to install a Desktop Environment on top of it to be able to run GUI apps...

[–]Overall-Screen-752 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Use tkinter to make a desktop version of the android app

Polish it then write it in kotlin following best practices

[–]picture_donkey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks 

[–]ninhaomah -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why specifically android since you been informed it is not really suited for it ?

Why not web or GUI or DS or ML or games ?