This is an experimental Python for Android APK builder based on the pythonic toolchain of kivy-ios. Broad goals are:

Update: Basic SDL2 support is done. Support for building an APK is still rudimentary (only a few options supported), but it should now be possible to properly attack any feature of the current python-for-android without this all needing to be refactored later. I'd be grateful to anyone interested in testing this, and will start writing documentation on how to do so shortly (beyond the brief snippets below).

• Support SDL2
• Support multiple bootstraps (user-chosen java + NDK code)
• Support python3
• Support some kind of binary distribution (including on Windows)
• Be a standalone Pypi module

This is at an early (but working!) stage. The following command will try to download and build some recipes. It should duplicate the functionality of distribute.sh (and you can build an apk with the result using build.py!), but the code is currently bad and only the few essential recipes are supported.

 python2 toolchain.py create --name=testproject --bootstrap=pygame --recipes=sdl,python2

Add the --debug option to any command to enable printing all the debug information, including output of shell commands (there's a lot if it!).

It's also now possible to build working APKs that run kivy with sdl2. The following command should work:

python2 toolchain.py create --name=testsdl2 --bootstrap=sdl2 --recipes=sdl2,python2

Like the pygame bootstrap, this makes a dist dir with a build.py. This doesn't support all the same options as the old bootstrap (yet), but you can customise things like the APK name.

All the details here are highly preliminary; the current priority is to get different parts of the tool basically working (even if hacky) before going back to set technical decisions in stone.

• Virtualenv
• Android SDK (link by setting the ANDROIDSDK environment variable)
• Android NDK (link by setting the ANDROIDNDK environment variable)
• Cython

Pip:

• sh
• appdirs
• colorama
• jinja2

• Pymodules install
• Some recipes/components aren't stripped properly of doc etc.
• Downloaded file md5 and headers aren't checked
• Biglink is essential (the p4a disable option isn't implemented)
• Android services are not implemented at all
• App loading screen
• Billing support
• Kivy Launcher build (can now be implemented as a bootstrap)
• Several build options for build.py
• Probably some other stuff

Working to abstract out build.py for dists based on a bootstrap template, as well as abstracting Distribution support both to improve the code and to make automatic binary distribution easy.