PySide for Android

This article describes:

• how to build Shiboken & PySide? for Android using the Necessitas SDK
• how to use the resulting binaries
• and how to bundle them with your Python program in a standalone APK

Acknowledgement

As usual with open source development, I haven't done all of this single handedly, but built on work done by others previously. So I'd like to both acknowledge on which work this is build upon and also provided links to the sources I've used:

• THPs ​PySide for Android - showing that this is possible
• ​android-python27 - solved the APK bundling issue, provides Android-buildable Python 2.7
• ​the BlackBerry-Py Building PySide guide - I've used this as a base when making the Android build scripts
• Qt - provides the GUI toolkit :)
• PySide - for provides the Python-Qt bindings

Thanks a lot - without you, this would not be possible! :)