<story><title>Python for Android</title><url>http://python-for-android.readthedocs.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylangs1030</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t use Android devices, so I wouldn&amp;#x27;t know, but is this the first instance of mobile Python on Android OS?&lt;p&gt;Jailbroken iPhones have had this capability for years...not to say iOS is better, just that I&amp;#x27;d expected this would happen...sooner?&lt;p&gt;That said, the Python distro on iOS is only 2.6-ish, not even 2.7, and there&amp;#x27;s no 3.x release there. It&amp;#x27;s not very useful but I guess I did use it a lot for learning back then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>myko</author><text>Python has been on Android for a long time. The first instances I know of is SL4A: &lt;a href=&quot;https://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;code.google.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;android-scripting&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kivy for Android has been around awhile as well.</text></comment>
<story><title>Python for Android</title><url>http://python-for-android.readthedocs.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylangs1030</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t use Android devices, so I wouldn&amp;#x27;t know, but is this the first instance of mobile Python on Android OS?&lt;p&gt;Jailbroken iPhones have had this capability for years...not to say iOS is better, just that I&amp;#x27;d expected this would happen...sooner?&lt;p&gt;That said, the Python distro on iOS is only 2.6-ish, not even 2.7, and there&amp;#x27;s no 3.x release there. It&amp;#x27;s not very useful but I guess I did use it a lot for learning back then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fabriceleal</author><text>&amp;gt; is this the first instance of mobile Python on Android OS?&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I have no idea. But I&amp;#x27;m aware that there are multiple efforts to bring &amp;quot;sane&amp;quot; languages (such as C#, by Xamarin) to Android, others than Java.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Jailbroken iPhones have had this capability for years&lt;p&gt;I had no idea about this one, but I don&amp;#x27;t follow iOS development either.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;d expected this would happen...sooner?&lt;p&gt;I agree with you, but I believe this sort of thing should be backed by Apple (iOS) or Google (Android) themselves.&lt;p&gt;[EDIT]: formatting</text></comment>