How to use latest plyer

[Geekademy]

Hi,

When I add plyer to my buildozer.spec's requirements, I get an older one that
doesn't support what I need to do. e.g. brightness

How do I get the newest from github packaged for android? The spec file doesn't
seem to have a provision for that, as far as I can tell.

Thanks,

[ZenCODE]

You can specify the version in your requirements. e.g.

    requirements = ..., plyer==1.3.1dev

Does that work for you?

[Geekademy]

Hi, didn't think that would work because it is not on PyPi but rather on github.

Just tried and it didn't work:

Collecting plyer==1.3.1dev (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement plyer==1.3.1dev (from
-r requirements.txt (line 1)) (from versions: 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2.0, 1.2.1,
1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.3.0)
No matching distribution found for plyer==1.3.1dev (from -r requirements.txt
(line 1))


I believe PyPi has the ability to hold development versions now---perhaps a
future buildozer could take the metadata into account.

Thanks,

[Geekademy]

Ok, it took me a while to figure out the exact syntax for this, but here it is:

requirements = kivy,git+https://github.com/kivy/plyer@master#egg=plyer

Notice there is no "plyer==" at the beginning of the package name.

Apparently buildozer's requirements line supports this extended pip syntax,
probably should be documented.

(Thanks to qua non, who pointed me in the right direction.)