[Tutor] About python intrepeters on Android.

[Alan Gauld]

On 06/08/15 23:22, Ali Moradi wrote:
> Hi, i noticed that the Python intrepeters on Android OS does not have
> Tkinter!
>
> Why they couldn't bring Tkinter on Android too?

Two reasons:
1) Tkinter is just a thin wrapper around the Tcl/Tk UI toolkit.
    If Tk isn't on Android then Tkinter will not be.
    And Tk isn't. (It may be at some point but not yet)

2) Tk, and so Tkinter, is based on a windowed environment.
    Android is not. It would be a major task to try to rethink
    how all the widgets in Tk would look and work under Android.

The good news is that there is a UI toolkit for Python
on Android (as well as Windows, Linux, MacOS and iOS)
called Kivy which is apparently quite powerful
and easy to learn. Take a look at kivy.org.

I've never used it but have heard positive reports.

HTH
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