[Mobile-sig] python on android

[Jeff Hardy]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 29, 2015 6:02 PM, "Russell Keith-Magee" <russell at keith-magee.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Wes,
> >
> > A buildbot is possible, but complicated.
> >
> > An Android buildbot could be hosted on any "unix like" system - you can
> get the Android development kits for Linux and OS/X. However, that wouldn't
> allow you to run the test suite for the mobile platform - because the
> binary you build would need to run on the mobile platform itself. Android
> does provide an emulator that would allow "on server" testing, but I don't
> know how well it can be driven by remote control. My experience using it as
> a developer has been "don't", because it's so painfully slow to start and
> control.
> >
> > On iOS, there are other limitations. The host compiler *must* be iOS,
> because XCode isn't available for any other platform (AFAIK). Assuming that
> can be accommodated, iOS provides a *simulator*, not an emulator - and the
> simulator uses x86, not ARM. So, we'd need to run the test suite on the x86
> simulator *and* a native device to be truly sure it works.
> >
> > So - I don't know how this would fit into the existing Python build farm
> infrastructure, but we'd need to add a minimum of 1 device (an iOS device)
> to the build farm - ideally, 2 (an Android and an iOS device) - and
> possibly a couple more if we want to cover testing on different OS
> versions.
> >
> > This is, of course, is somewhat premature - we need to get the build
> working first :-)
>
> Understood, thanks!
>
> So, there appears to be an opportunity to donate some resources to this
> initiative.
>

It's certainly possible - Xamarin Test Cloud[1], for example.

- Jeff

[1] http://xamarin.com/test-cloud
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