Can i submit packages that i maintain to mobile-forge?

[baseplate-admin]

Hi,

I am maintaining:

• resvg-py : Pythonic Bindings to the resvg module
• modern-colorthief: Reimplementation of the colorthief module in rust and python

Can i submit these packages to mobile-forge repository? My primary target is usage with flet

[mhsmith]

As the README says, mobile-forge has now been deprecated in favor of cibuildwheel. As you are the maintainer of these packages, you can use cibuildwheel to build Android and iOS wheels yourself, and release them on PyPI. There are some examples of how to do this at chaquo/chaquopy#1417 (comment).

[baseplate-admin]

Wait, sorry i am a bit confused. Which project does which?

I came from kivy land,

Where there's buildozer, and python-for-android,

So in my mind it did the mapping:

• chaquopy -> buildozer
• mobile-forge -> python-for-android

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As the README says, mobile-forge has now been deprecated in favor of cibuildwheel

the projects i maintain are written in rust, they are built using maturin (which has android build output), so now my questions are,

1. If i upload built wheels to pypi, will it be picked up by chaquopy?
2. Do i need to add explicit support for the packages anywhere?

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Thank you

Have a good day

[mhsmith]

mobile-forge and cibuildwheel both produce wheels, which you can either install locally or release through a repository like PyPI. As far as I know, Kivy doesn't do that for Android or iOS; instead it builds all packages on the app developer's machine.

• If i upload built wheels to pypi, will it be picked up by chaquopy?

Yes: for example, there are some Android wheels on the PyPI page of pyzmq which you could try installing right now.

• Do i need to add explicit support for the packages anywhere?

I'm not sure what you mean. You certainly don't need to add them to any central list of packages supported on Android or IOS; Briefcase or Chaquopy will just run pip with the correct settings to search PyPI for the appropriate platform.

[baseplate-admin]

Okay i got my answer.

Thank you