Can I write native iPhone apps using Python

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Using PyObjC  you can use Python to write Cocoa applications for OS X  Can I write native iPhone apps using Python and if so  how

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You can use PyObjC on the iPhone as well  due to the excellent work by Jay Freeman  saurik   See iPhone Applications in Python   Note that this requires a jailbroken iPhone at the moment

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Yes you can  You write your code in tinypy  which is restricted Python   then use tinypy to convert it to C    and finally compile this with XCode into a native iPhone app  Phil Hassey has published a game called Elephants  using this approach  Here are more details   http   www philhassey com blog 2009 12 23 elephants-is-free-on-the-app-store

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I think it was not possible earlier but I recently heard about PyMob  which seems interesting because the apps are written in Python and the final outputs are native source codes in various platforms  Obj-C for iOS  Java for Android etc   This is certainly quite unique  This webpage explains it in more detail   I haven t given it a shot yet  but will take a look soon

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It seems this is now something developers are allowed to do  the iOS Developer Agreement was changed yesterday and appears to have been ammended in a such a way as to make embedding a Python interpretter in your application legal   SECTION 3 3 2     INTERPRETERS  Old      3 3 2 An Application may not itself install or launch other executable   code by any means  including without   limitation through the use of a   plug-in architecture  calling other   frameworks  other APIs or otherwise    Unless otherwise approved by Apple in   writing  no interpreted code may be   downloaded or used in an Application   except for code that is interpreted   and run by Apple   s Documented APIs and   built-in interpreter s     Notwithstanding the foregoing  with   Apple   s prior written consent  an   Application may use embedded   interpreted code in a limited way if   such use is solely for providing minor   features or functionality that are   consistent with the intended and   advertised purpose of the Application    New      3 3 2 An Application may not download or install executable code    Interpreted code may only be used in   an Application if all scripts  code   and interpreters are packaged in the   Application and not downloaded  The   only exception to the foregoing is   scripts and code downloaded and run by   Apple   s built-in WebKit framework

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Not currently  currently the only languages available to access the iPhone SDK are C C    Objective C and Swift   There is no technical reason why this could not change in the future but I wouldn t hold your breath for this happening in the short term   That said  Objective-C and Swift really are not too scary        2016 edit      Javascript with NativeScript framework is available to use now

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Yes  nowadays you can develop apps for iOS in Python    There are two frameworks that you may want to checkout  Kivy and PyMob   Please consider the answers to this question too  as they are more up-to-date than this one

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2019 Update   While Python-iOS development is relatively immature and likely will prevent  afaik  your app from having native UI and functionality that could be achieved in an Apple-supported development language  Apple now seems to allow embedding Python interpreters in Native Swift Obj-C apps   This supports importing Python libraries and running Python scripts  even with supplied command-line arguments  directly from your Native Swift Obj-C code   My company is actually wrapping our infrastructure  originally written in Python  in a native iOS application  It works very well and communication between the parts can be easily achieved via a client-server model   Here is a nice library by Beeware with a cookiecutter template if you want to try and run Python scripts in your iOS app  https   github com beeware Python-Apple-support tree 3 6

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An update to the iOS Developer Agreement means that you can use whatever you like  as long as you meet the developer guidelines  Section 3 3 1  which restricted what developers could use for iOS development  has been entirely removed   Source  http   daringfireball net 2010 09 app store guidelines

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BeeWare is an open source framework for authoring native iOS  amp  Android apps

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The only significant  external  language for iPhone development that I m aware of with semi-significant support in terms of frameworks and compatibility is MonoTouch  a C   NET environment for developing on the iPhone

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Pythonista has an Export to Xcode feature that allows you to export your Python scripts as Xcode projects that build standalone iOS apps   https   github com ColdGrub1384 Pyto is also worth looking into

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The iPhone SDK agreement is also rather vague  about whether you re even allowed to run scripting languages  outside of a WebView s Javascript   My reading is that it is OK - as long as none of the scripts you execute are downloaded from the network  so pre-installed and user-edited scripts seem to be OK    IANAL etc etc

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Technically  as long as the interpreted code ISN T downloaded  excluding JavaScript   the app may be approved  Rhomobiles  Rhodes  framework does just that  bundling mobile Ruby  a lightweight version of Rails  and your app for distribution via the app-store  Because both the interpreter and the interpreted code are packaged into the final application - Apple doesn t find it objectionable    http   rhomobile com products rhodes   Even after the latest apple press release - rhodes apps  mobile ruby  are still viable on the app-store  I d find it hard to believe that tinyPy or pyObjC wouldn t find a place if there is a willing developer community

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You can do this with PyObjC  with a jailbroken phone of course  But if you want to get it into the App Store  they will not allow it because it  interprets code   However  you may be able to use Shed Skin  although I m not aware of anyone doing this  I can t think of any good reason to do this though  as you lose dynamic typing  and might as well use ObjC

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