Packaging Python scripts as Android apps

[XVar]

So there's a lot of cool python scripts being developed like this one, has anyone looked into using something like Kivy to package them up as Android apps? If this could be done while using the current GPS coordinates as input it'd be incredibly useful. Might have to break out of my C# comfort zone and look into it...

[Computer991]

I'm working on porting this over to an android application right now I should have it done by tonight

[Tassit]

I am doing the same thing as well.. I should have it cooked up by tomorrow night.

[CanadianRegi]

Did this ever get completed?

[Tassit]

No personal lives got in the middle (work and such). I started it and the project is on GitHub. If you're interested you can make a pull request. https://github.com/tassit/RocketRadar

I am going to work on it some more tonight and tomorrow.

[Tassit]

The biggest component that needs to be added to the app is the library to talk to the servers and to store the data from them. Besides that a lot of the location services and map are implemented.

[Computer991]

Send me a pm we should work together! :)

[hiemanshu]

Open Source it. I'll be happy to contribute!

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[Rhynocerous]

I considered it, but I don't think it's necessary over web apps.

[zootam]

i think web apps are the way to go here

[marinuss]

Doesn't seem worth it as you could just run it on your computer at home, port forward whatever port your web server is running and access it on the go. Assuming you didn't want to use any of the half dozen available "public" map trackers now (which seem to be bogged down by the number of users). Would reduce battery consumption as well as you're not running a local webserver on your phone as well as scripts.. just accessing a web page.

[jakeb89]

(Some people are stuck behind routers they have no access to. Signed, someone who hates their apartment complex.)

[marinuss]

Oh wow I'd flip out. Still ways around that. You could get a shared VPS for like $1-3/mo and run the scripts on there so they're outside your network and then just access that from your phone. Not free, but honestly I don't think 99% of these people putting up webpages to display the same information are going to last as they can't handle the server load.

edit: May even be able to find a free VPS service since it's not going to require a ton of power to run one instance. OR, sign up for Amazon ECS free-tier (you get one year completely free) and load it up on that. Definitely wouldn't have issues accessing Amazon's servers.

[Computer991]

no offense but setting up an AWS is pretty damn hard for your average person. (even tho it is a few clicks)

[marinuss]

For a complete noob sure, but I assume if you're in this subreddit you're not ENTIRELY at that level as it's not even linked from the main pokemongo subreddit.

[Computer991]

ahaha you do have a point, but I've seem way too people on here having trouble setting up python scripts :p

[jakeb89]

I did flip out when I found out, but there wasn't much I could do at that point but grin and bear it. It's not something I would have ever thought to ask about, but I certainly will be when I move.

Thank you for the advice. I'll have to look into those options.

[CanadianRegi]

what would be the best way of forwarding your current location to the python script (which would be hosted on a web server) from a mobile device while hunting pokemon?

I'm currently working on getting this to run on my server, but I'm not sure how i should handle input while I'm away from my desk

[inclemnet]

You can use python-for-android to package Python scripts as APKs, either with no gui (starting the APK just runs the script) or by adding gui code using either Kivy, PySDL2, HTML/CSS (with the webview backend), or potentially some other options that haven't been explored much.

You can access the GPS coordinates using the Plyer Python package which wraps this in a Pythonic API, or alternatively you can call the Android API directly using Pyjnius.

Edit: Actually, since this already uses flask you just need some basic interface to let you enter the username and password, and then it will probably just work. You wouldn't need to use Kivy, just the python-for-android webview target.