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On 26/05/13 20:41, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 05/26/2013 11:43 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
<snip>
>
> Maybe it would have been faster to develop, but ultimately less useful
> and require more development time in the long run.  suppose I now want
> the app natively on my phone (because that's all the rage).  It's an
> iPhone.  Oh.  Apple doesn't support Python.  Okay, rewrite the works,
> including business logic, in Objective C.  Now I want it on my android
> phone.  Oops rewrite the stack again in Java.
>
Kivy (http://kivy.org) is a python library that can be used to write 
python apps for Linux, Windows, MaxOSX, Android and IOS.

Regards,
Ian F