Using Python on Android

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Walks through using SL4A to call Android facades (WiFi_getConnectionInfo, camera, SMS) and shows a working SD-hosted HTTP server script that reads the phone IP and serves files. Demonstrates building full stacks on-device with bot Brew basil (about 3,500 packages) but hits pip 1.1 and fat32 no-symlink issues that break virtualenv; deploys a Django app to Heroku (works) but encounters a Django syncdb username bug and psycopg2 install failure. Tries Linux on Android (200–1.3GB images) and finds the Android SDK has no ARM build so Eclipse+SDK on-device currently fails.

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1. 0:00Introduction and motivation
2. 2:15Scripting layer for Android
3. 5:22Installation process
4. 8:06Developing with SL4A
5. 13:43Bot Brew and environment setup
6. 21:29Django deployment
7. 24:57Linux on Android
8. 31:11Desktop-style development
9. 35:12Conclusions and resources

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