Version `v2026.05.09` of `python-for-android` has been released.

[ElliotG]

🥳 Release announcement 🥳

Version `v2026.05.09` of `python-for-android` has been released.

This is a major release after over two years of development, packed
with new features, modernized tooling and a refreshed recipe set.

Highlights:

• Added support for Python 3.14, which is now the default version for python3 and hostpython3. Minimum supported Python is now 3.8.
• Added the SDL3 bootstrap (alongside SDL3, SDL3_ttf, SDL3_mixer and SDL3_image recipes), in preparation for Kivy 3.0.0.
• Added support for prebuilt wheels and introduced isolated, PEP 517 builds via the new PyProjectRecipe (kivy and pyjnius migrated).
• Modernized the Android toolchain: Gradle 8.14.3, Android Gradle Plugin 8.11.0, default API target bumped to 35, and OpenSSL bumped to 3.x.
• Added many new recipes: msgspec, vosk, videonative, pycairo, pynacl, materialyoucolor, coincurve, pydantic-core, pyreqwest_impersonate, uvloop, grpcio, tiktoken, ModernGL, aubio, bitarray, httpx — plus a new RustCompiledComponentsRecipe.
• New Android features: foregroundServiceType support in the manifest, an android.touch module for SDLSurface touch interception, and expanded display-cutout APIs.

You can find the full release notes at
https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/releases/tag/v2026.05.09

[Tomek CEDRO]

CONGRATZ AND BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE CONTRIBUTORS :-)

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CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info

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