[PyQt] Has anyone successfully used pyqtdeploy to deploy to mobile?

[David Morris]

Chandrakant,

Welcome to cutting edge Python development.  :)

If you want tips pointers getting started on the iOS compile, send me an
email.

The good news is that once I figured out pyqtdeploy for iOS, it was very
easy to get it working for OSX applications!

David

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Chandrakant Gopalan <
chandrakant.gopalan at pinogy.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
> Thanks very much for your reply. Its the same thing for us, we are pretty
> much tied to Qt, so we cannot use Kivy at this point. We dont use Numpy at
> this point, but use a lot of other installed packagaes, so I am sure we
> will run into some challenges.
>
> Glad to know that theres a path (even though unclear) for iOS and Android.
> I have had big challenges with the Qt-PyQt ecosystem in trying to make a Qt
> executable using pyqtdeploy. I am thinking of using pyinstaller for
> deploying desktop apps, and re-evaluate pyqtdeploy later for mobile
> platforms.
>
> Thanks
> Chandrakant
>
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> *From: *"David Morris" <othalan at othalan.net>
> *To: *"Chandrakant Gopalan" <chandrakant.gopalan at pinogy.com>
> *Cc: *"pyqt" <pyqt at riverbankcomputing.com>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, April 26, 2016 10:47:19 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [PyQt] Has anyone successfully used pyqtdeploy to deploy
> to mobile?
>
> Chandrakant,
> I am using PyQt and pyqtdeploy for writing an iOS app and find it
> generally works very well.  There is no official documentation on how to do
> it and the build process is a little bit convoluted, but once figured out
> everything is really quite easy to work with.  The big challenge is that
> iOS originally did not support shared libraries and pyqtdeploy is not yet
> setup to support the new (iOS 8.x) shared library implementation. Android
> should be significantly easier to work with, though I have not tried it
> myself.
>
> One of the bigger challenge is if you want to use third-party libraries.
> For example, NumPy does not compile for iOS, but I worked around that for
> version 1.9.3 with a patch to fix a few bugs.
>
> Other alternatives .... PySide is equivalent to PyQt, but does not support
> Qt5 and I haven't seen iOS support.  Kivy is an open source framework with
> its own GUI implementation and supports both iOS and Android, but I have
> not attempted using it because of code which already utilizes the Qt
> framework.
>
> David
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:45 AM, Chandrakant Gopalan <
> chandrakant.gopalan at pinogy.com> wrote:
>
>> We feel the strength of pyqtdeploy is the fact that its able to support
>> mobile platforms. So we invested some time in it, but feel that we are
>> running into too many walls, just in generating the QT C++ app.
>> In comparison, pyinstaller was easier to work with, but does not support
>> mobile.
>>
>> Has anyone successfully deployed Python-based Desktop Qt apps to mobile
>> platforms? If so, was it using pyqtdeploy? If not what are the other
>> choices?
>> Just thought it would be better to check before investing more time on it.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Chandrakant
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