gh-137242: Mention Android binary releases in documentation #138305
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needs backport to 3.13
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| * Build Python by following the instructions in :source:`Android/README.md`. | ||
| This will create the directory ``cross-build/HOST/prefix``. | ||
| * Either: |
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This doesn't describe what the reader hopes to accomplish at this point. Perhaps:
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| * First, acquire a release build of Python for Android. | |
| There are two methods of doing so, either downloading a pre-built binary, | |
| or compiling Python from the source code yourself. |
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@AA-Turner: Are you able to merge this? |
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Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <[email protected]>
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Thanks @mhsmith for the PR, and @freakboy3742 for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.13, 3.14. |
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…thonGH-138305) Adds a mention of binary releases to the Android documentation. --------- Co-authored-by: Russell Keith-Magee <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <[email protected]> (cherry picked from commit 594bdde) Co-authored-by: Malcolm Smith <[email protected]>
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…thonGH-138305) Adds a mention of binary releases to the Android documentation. --------- Co-authored-by: Russell Keith-Magee <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <[email protected]> (cherry picked from commit 594bdde) Co-authored-by: Malcolm Smith <[email protected]>
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GH-139124 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.14 branch. |
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GH-139125 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.13 branch. |
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If a developer for some reason doesn't want to use Briefcase or Buildozer, these releases will make it much easier for them to manually embed Python in an Android app.
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