/buildozer

Generic Python packager for Android / iOS and Desktop

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

Buildozer

This tool is currently in alpha.

Buildozer is a tool for creating application packages easily.

The goal is to have one "buildozer.spec" file in your app directory: it describe your application requirements, titles, etc. Buildozer will use that spec for create package for Android, iOS, Windows, OSX and Linux.

Usage example

  1. Install buildozer:

    # latest dev
    git clone git://github.com/kivy/buildozer
    cd buildozer
    sudo python2.7 setup.py install
    
    # via pip (latest stable)
    sudo pip install buildozer
    
    # via easy_install
    sudo easy_install buildozer
    
  2. Go into your application directory and do:

    buildozer init
    # edit the buildozer.spec, then
    buildozer android debug deploy run
    

Example of commands:

# buildozer commands
buildozer clean

# buildozer target command
buildozer android update
buildozer android deploy
buildozer android debug
buildozer android release

# or all in one (compile in debug, deploy on device)
buildozer android debug deploy

# set the default command if nothing set
buildozer setdefault android debug deploy run

Usage

Usage: buildozer [--verbose] [target] [command1] [command2]

Available targets:
  android            Android target, based on python-for-android project
  ios                iOS target, based on kivy-ios project. (not working yet.)

Global commands (without target):
  clean              Clean the whole Buildozer environment.
  help               Show the Buildozer help.
  init               Create a initial buildozer.spec in the current directory
  setdefault         Set the default command to do when no arguments are given
  version            Show the Buildozer version

Target commands:
  clean              Clean the target environment
  update             Update the target dependencies
  debug              Build the application in debug mode
  release            Build the application in release mode
  deploy             Deploy the application on the device
  run                Run the application on the device

buildozer.spec

See buildozer/default.spec for an up-to-date spec file.