Having trouble with basic Android APK compilation of Kivy example

[Matthew Buckley]

Hi,

I've been trying to learn Kivy by going through some of the tutorial videos and, as I own a Windows machine and wanted to try and build an Android program without a virtual machine I installed python-for-android and tried to use that, and everything went fine until it got to the final command and then it wouldn't seem to work, coming up with the same error every time. If anyone could help at all that would be great, thanks! File I'm trying to build is attached, as I said, really basic :)

Bash error output:

p4a apk --private --sdk_dir C:\Users\Matt\AppData\Local\Android\sdk C:\Users\Matt\.spyder-py3\files\Kivy\Crash_Course\1.2.py --name 'Hello!.py' --version 1.10.0 --bootstrap=sdl2 --requirements=python3,kivy --debug

[INFO]:    This python-for-android revamp is an experimental alpha release!

[INFO]:    It should work (mostly), but you may experience missing features or bugs.

[INFO]:    Will compile for the following archs: armeabi

[INFO]:    Found Android API target in $ANDROIDAPI

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/bin/p4a", line 11, in <module>

    load_entry_point('python-for-android==0.4', 'console_scripts', 'p4a')()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pythonforandroid/toolchain.py", line 754, in main

    ToolchainCL()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pythonforandroid/toolchain.py", line 343, in __init__

    getattr(self, command_method_name)(unknown)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pythonforandroid/toolchain.py", line 87, in wrapper_func

    user_ndk_ver=self.ndk_version)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pythonforandroid/build.py", line 226, in prepare_build_environment

    android = sh.Command(join(sdk_dir, 'tools', 'android'))

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sh.py", line 1202, in __init__

    raise CommandNotFound(path)

sh.CommandNotFound: C:UsersMattAppDataLocalAndroidsdk/tools/android

Tutorial used to build program using python-for-android:

https://python-for-android.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart/

[Alexander Taylor]

python-for-android does no support windows. There's an experimental PR for it at https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/pull/994 , but this may need some effort to make work, may have problems even if it does work, and isn't expected to be supported in the master branch any time soon.

[Matthew Buckley]

Ah okay, feel silly for not realising that sooner but thanks, I'll just look at setting up a VM then :) thanks!