What's the future of Python on mobile platforms?

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what's the future of Python on mobile platforms really interesting question that I got from a reader in this video I want to share some my thoughts on this topic so let's jump right in I want to show you some projects that I think are relevant to this question so number one is a framework called key B and it is a cross-platform open-source Python library for developing applications that also work on mobile devices that work on all kinds of operating systems and it's a very cool project so the purpose of kevie is to enable you to build graphical user interfaces that work on many different platforms using Python here on the website you can see some examples of people have built in terms of graphical user interfaces or little games and in graphical applications using kiwi and Python so keavy gives you some standard controls and some graphical primitives or UI primitives that will look the same on any platform and you can use it to build applications that work on mobile phones desktop computers and so on that's kind of the big advantage of using TV the biggest downside in my opinion is that these application will not look very native so there are some built-in UI elements that you can use but they they look the same they look the same across all platforms which we're just kind of a pro and a con at the same time so with kevie you're getting different UI elements like buttons and text fields that look the same across many different platforms because they're all implemented custom or implemented specifically for k.v and that means your application is going to look the same on a mobile phone and on a desktop computer in terms of the way to look the UI looks now this could be a good thing or a bad thing kind of the biggest downside here is that your application won't really look like the native like a native application would on the operating system and you can see that used here too to great effect or to really positive effect in an application like eco where it's like an external multi-touch control for for making music and here the custom UI works really well you know you don't really expect us to look like the standard buttons on your desktop computer but for some other applications it might be kind of the opposite of what you want to do so Kibby can be great choice but it has some upsides and downsides associated with it it's gonna be interesting to see how this develops in the future and you know what new features are going to be introduced here but it's certainly gonna play a big role in the future of Python or in pythons future in the mobile development space now another project that I'm really excited about is the be ware project and this is kind of a collection of different frameworks tools and libraries that you can use to implement native UIs across multiple platforms so on the website there's there's a good primer here where they tell you about what you can do with beware and took me a while to find this actually but really this is an abstraction layer you can use to write native iOS apps native Android apps and native desktop apps using Python and it's kind of cool so what what the be where are parts of the beware project allow you to do is to write applications that look exactly like they should on a specific platform so an iOS application reading with written with PI B or this beware project it's gonna use the native controls and it's going to look like a first-class application on that platform it's gonna be the same with an Android application or a Windows application or a Mac OS application those applications build with the be ware project they're all gonna have this native look and feel and I'm really excited about that because I really believe that whatever application you build it should take into account how the underlying platform works the platform where you want this to run on it should feel native to that platform so the PI B project I think is very very exciting it's kind of still in the early stages but it is a very very cool project and I'm excited about the future developments here it's open source you can contribute to it it's the same with TV so if you're interested in mobile development with Python and you want to make the future better there now is the time to join join these projects and to jump in and to do something great for the Python world so in summary I think the future for Python in the mobile space is looking bright or let's say because right now it's in my opinion it's not very bright I mean if if I were to write a mobile application today my first choice would not be to do it in Python to be honest but this can change in the future and I think especially with the adoption that we're seeing with Python at the moment there's gonna be a pretty good reason to to go and see if we can enable people to write really great-looking native looking applications using Python and project projects like kV and PI B or the beware project here they're doing a great deal to make 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