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| briefcase | Toga | |
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| 3 | 2 | |
| 2,317 | 4,092 | |
| 2.8% | 1.1% | |
| 9.8 | 9.9 | |
| 5 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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briefcase
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NormCap - Cross-platform utility to extract text from the screen
Packaging a Python application including dependencies for all platforms is another hard problem. For now, briefcase works best for me, but nuitka is a strong competitor.
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Python to Windows Executable (py2exe, pyinstaller, cx_freeze or ?)
Another option for packaging Python apps is the BeeWare project Briefcase (https://github.com/beeware/briefcase). The only limitation that exists in your specific case is Tkinter - Briefcase doesn't support packaging Tkinter apps, but it does support Qt and Toga (BeeWare's GUI toolkit) Toga; Toga is design to be as approachable as Tkinter.
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Creating Python Android/iOS Apps
I've found a lot of approaches and options, though Briefcase by BeeWare has been about the right level of sophistication for me.
Toga
- BeeWare Toga v0.4.0 – A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit
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Creating Python Android/iOS Apps
PS: While I'm at it, I'm wondering if there's a better Python-friendly UI framework than Toga. It seems to be very basic and focused on cross-platform compatibility - which is nice, but if there's something better, that would be nice to know too.
What are some alternatives?
Nuitka - Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.
kivy - Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS
briefcase-android-gradle-template - A template for generating Android Gradle projects with Briefcase
PySimpleGUI - Python GUIs for Humans! PySimpleGUI is the top-rated Python application development environment. Launched in 2018 and actively developed, maintained, and supported in 2024. Transforms tkinter, Qt, WxPython, and Remi into a simple, intuitive, and fun experience for both hobbyists and expert users.
EDMarketConnector - Downloads commodity market and other station data from the game Elite: Dangerous for use with all popular online and offline trading tools.
PySide - ATTENTION: This project is deprecated, please refer to PySide2
normcap - OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images
urwid - Console user interface library for Python (official repo)
primenote
wxPython
open-webdriver - Yet another web driver wrapper for python. But this one has cross platform tests!
pywebview - Build GUI for your Python program with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS