[Tutor] I-Phone App in Python?

[James Reynolds]

the "native app" part of building an "app" is somewhat trivial in
comparison to the backend needs.

Read this article here on what instagram uses for their architecture:
http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/what-powers-instagram-hundreds-of-instances-dozens-of


As you can see, most of it is Python libraries, some of which are django
specific, some of which aren't (note, theya are using custom written task
system instead of using Celery - not sure why this is).

As I understand it, interpreted languages on phones simply take up too much
space and memory.

I know some companies have used
http://www.appcelerator.com/<http://www.appcelerator.com/developers>
with
good success

That said, unless all you want to your app to do is only interact with the
user from within the phone and never get information from outside of it or
send information outside of it, then I suppose you won't be able to use
Python to any degree.

But, if you do, then you can write fantastic apps using python libraries
for the backend needs.

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Chris Fox <chris at robotninja.net> wrote:

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> Even if that were true (Django is, as I understand it, a web
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> Chris
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