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stefantalpalaru on Oct 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Python on Android? First impressions of Kivy

It seems to package the Python interpreter on Android: http://kivy.org/docs/guide/packaging-android.html

samuel on Oct 21, 2012 [–]

I have read a bit about this Python on Android, and it seems that uses Android's NDK, which allows to port C/C++ programs to Android. I wasn't aware that this was possible. I thought that only bytecode was allowed for security reasons.

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