You can set up the virtual box and install any Linux distribution in that.

The process of configuring the system which involves installing the Linux, setting up the dependencies, transferring the data from the host system to the virtual machine is time-consuming.

To run a virtual machine, at least 4GB of RAM would be required to be allotted to this virtual system to properly fire up the machine.

Not all of us have high-performance machines that can handle virtualization.

The first very obvious way is to set up a virtual machine, spin up a Linux distribution, and install all the dependencies. A small piece of advice, use kivy and kivymd defined modules to avoid any app crashing error. Give your app a suitable title, a package name which can simply be the lower case, concatenated version of the title, package domain which can start with com or org, then list the requirements of your app and finally uncomment the internet permissions line in case your app requires it. These lines are not in actual order and have been picked from the generated file There are a few lines that need to be modified in that file before proceeding with the next steps (There are a total of 339 lines in the actual file): The file contains the whole configuration and the app is built following this only. The buildozer spec file is automatically generated while initializing the buildozer. We will see 1,2 and 4 steps in detail in upcoming sections as they don’t require any explicit change but it is necessary to understand how to configure the buildozer specs properly.

Making sure that the app entry point file is named as main.py.

While some issues need extra attention from your side, I will provide you 3 different ways to successfully convert the Python app to APK.īefore moving ahead, let’s look at the flow of the conversion: Other challenges include failed app conversions, app crashing on the start, or not able to connect to the internet. This adds up a challenge for budding developers who generally who use a windows machine for all the coding purpose.

This conversion process is only possible on a Linux system (for now) as the main components of this conversion, buildozer and python-for-android are currently supported on Linux based systems only.

The Python apps build with Kivy cannot be directly transferred to android phones as these devices only support APK (Android Application Package) and we need to package them properly.

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