Adding a python-for-android recipe to kivy app

Bence Hegyi

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Oct 28, 2016, 5:45:21 PM10/28/16

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Dear all,

I have been implementing a kivy application, which uses BeautifulSoup. It runs on desktop but crashes on my device. I get the same error message as many people did, when I try to run it.
I have been looking for an answer regarding how to include bs4 into my app and found one here, which suggest to create an APK for the package.

Because I managed to create the APK, I would like to ask whether there is a way to add/include this apk into my kivy app. If yes, could you please, explain it to me?

I would greatly appreciate your help!

Best regards,
Bence

Alexander Taylor

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Oct 29, 2016, 7:53:03 AM10/29/16

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You're referring to the error about importing one of the beautifulsoup components? As I remember, this occurs because beautifulsoup needs compiling, but python-for-android does not curently have a recipe for this. I don't know how beautifulsoup is structured, but it may be quite easy to add one. There's some documentation on this at
http://python-for-android.readthedocs.io/en/latest/recipes/

Bence Hegyi

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Oct 29, 2016, 9:02:19 AM10/29/16

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Hi,

thanks for your reply! I've managed to create and build the recipe, which I have attached (hopefully it was structured well).

I would like to ask, whether there is a way to include the created apk into my kivy project/app, so that I can use the BeautifulSoup package (on the device as well). If there is, could you please, explain the process to me?

Thank you for your help in advance!