Show HN: Build Android homescreen widgets with Python

Category: devtools

Tags: android, python, widgets, mobile-development, ui-framework

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

Appy is a framework that enables developers to create Android homescreen widgets using Python instead of Java/Kotlin, bridging Python's simplicity with Android's native capabilities. It's interesting because it allows Python developers to build interactive widgets with access to Java methods, common Python libraries, and visualizations like matplotlib plots directly on the home screen.

Target audience: backend devs, data engineers, python developers

Repository: https://github.com/talshahaf/appy · Java · Apache-2.0 · 2 stars

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