v2024.01.21

What's Changed

• Update Lottie player version by @HugoDaniel in #2900
• Add doc tests, make them pass. by @Julian-O in #2890
• Remove distutils usage, as is not available anymore on Python 3.12 by @misl6 in #2912
• enable json1 extenstion in sqlite3 by @HyTurtle in #2915
• Bump pyjnius version to 1.6.1 by @misl6 in #2914
• Add (now mandatory) .readthedocs.yaml file, add docs requirements.txt and update sphinx conf by @misl6 in #2916
• Introduce FAQ by @Julian-O in #2917
• Update Android gradle plugin to 8.1.1 and gradle to 8.0.2 by @misl6 in #2887
• Add support for Python 3.11 and make it the default while building hostpython3 and python3 by @T-Dynamos in #2850
• Update python-for-android prerequisites (Dockerfile, prerequisites.py, docs) by @misl6 in #2923
• Remove redundant append into WHITELIST_PATTERNS by @shyamnathp in #2935
• Update Contributing Guidelines and Readme by @Julian-O in #2922
• sourceCompatibility 1.7 and targetCompatibility 1.7 are obsolete, use 1.8 by default by @misl6 in #2942
• Update sdl2 deps to reflect the same targeted in kivy/kivy by @misl6 in #2927
• Initial support for PySide6 and Qt by @shyamnathp in #2918
• Bump Kivy version to 2.3.0 by @misl6 in #2952
• Update OpenSSL version to 1.1.1w by @prolenodev in #2958
• Release 2024.01.21 by @misl6 in #2959

New Contributors

• @HugoDaniel made their first contribution in #2900
• @shyamnathp made their first contribution in #2935
• @prolenodev made their first contribution in #2958

Full Changelog: v2023.09.16...v2024.01.21

v2023.09.16

Highlights

• This is the last python-for-android release that targets Python 3.10 by default. The next release will switch to Python 3.11

What's Changed

• Merge master into develop by @misl6 in #2797
• Cffi update by @HyTurtle in #2800
• Use build rather than pep517 for building by @s-t-e-v-e-n-k in #2784
• Bump actions/setup-python and actions/checkout versions, as old ones are deprecated by @misl6 in #2827
• Removes mysqldb recipe as does not support Python 3 by @misl6 in #2828
• Removes Babel recipe as it's not needed anymore. by @misl6 in #2826
• Remove dateutil recipe, as it's not needed anymore by @misl6 in #2829
• Optimize CI runs, by avoiding unnecessary rebuilds by @misl6 in #2833
• Remove pytz recipe, as it's not needed anymore by @misl6 in #2830
• Changed the url to use https as http fails by @kuzeyron in #2846
• vlc: fix build by @T-Dynamos in #2841
• Correct sys_platform by @Julian-O in #2852
• Docs: Fix code string - quickstart.rst by @kulothunganug in #2859
• Bump kivy version to 2.2.1 by @misl6 in #2855
• Use a pinned version of Cython for now, as most of the recipes are incompatible with Cython==3.x.x by @misl6 in #2862
• Automatically generate required pre-requisites by @Julian-O in #2858
• Use platform.uname instead of os.uname by @Julian-O in #2857
• Fix simple typos in comments by @Julian-O in #2863
• build_platform should be all-lowercase by @misl6 in #2864
• Docs: Fix typos and updated command to build apk - README by @kulothunganug in #2860
• Patching cleanup by @Julian-O in #2868
• Python versions: Update documentation & CI testing by @Julian-O in #2869
• Correct check for --sdk option by @Julian-O in #2870
• Factor out dependency checking. Use modern version handling by @Julian-O in #2866
• 🚨 linter fixes by @AndreMiras in #2874
• Remove deprecated FlatDir in Gradle template by @Julian-O in #2876
• Standardise ensure_dir and rmdir by @Julian-O in #2871
• Standardise on move by @Julian-O in #2884
• Use Python's touch() rather than shelling out. by @Julian-O in #2886
• Release 2023.09.16 by @misl6 in #2891

New Contributors

• @s-t-e-v-e-n-k made their first contribution in #2784
• @T-Dynamos made their first contribution in #2841
• @Julian-O made their first contribution in #2852
• @kulothunganug made their first contribution in #2859

Full Changelog: v2023.05.21...v2023.09.16

v2023.05.21

What's Changed

• Add support for Python 3.10 and make it the default while building hostpython3 and python3 by @misl6 in #2577
• Add PyAV recipe by @DexerBR in #2750
• Add debug loggings for identifying a matching dist by @BitcoinWukong in #2751
• Home app functionality by @kuzeyron in #2761
• Use io.IOBase for LogFile by @dylanmccall in #2763
• android_api to integer by @kuzeyron in #2765
• fix #2768 smallIconName null can t be compared to String by @brvier in #2769
• fix tools/liblink: syntax error by @SomberNight in #2771
• Update pyjnius version to 1.5.0 by @misl6 in #2791
• Update Kivy recipe for 2.2.0 by @misl6 in #2793

New Contributors

• @DexerBR made their first contribution in #2750
• @BitcoinWukong made their first contribution in #2751
• @dylanmccall made their first contribution in #2763

Full Changelog: v2023.02.10...v2023.05.21

v2023.02.10

Highlights:

• sh version has been restricted to sh>=1.10, <2.0;, as sh>2.0 is incompatible. We will migrate our code accordingly in the future.
• pydantic recipe has been updated.

Full changelog:

• restrict sh version #2746 (HyTurtle)
• 🐛 fix: Update pydantic recipe #2742 (FilipeMarch)
• Merge master into develop #2741 (misl6)

v2023.01.28

Highlights:

• scypt recipe has been updated.
• --orientation option controls the allowed orientations (portrait, landscape, portrait-reverse, landscape-reverse). The allowed orientations list is then set to KIVY_ORIENTATION environment variable, which is used during window setup time to populate the SDL_HINT_ORIENTATIONS value, as we're doing for other platforms.
• --manifest-orientation option has been added to keep the android:screenOrientation personalisation functionality, even if Android will be likely deprecate this attribute in future.
• If --manifest-orientation is not set, and only (one of multiple) --orientation options are passed, the value for android:screenOrientationis guessed and synthesized from the --orientation option. Sinceandroid:screenOrientationaccepts only 1 value, if multiple--orientationare given,android:screenOrientation` will be set to unspecified.
• Introduced support for permission properties (maxSdkVersion and usesPermissionFlags)

Full changelog:

• Implements --manifest-orientation and changes how --orientation works so we can now pass the setting to the SDL orientation hint #2739 (misl6)
• Update __init__.py from scrypt recipe #2738 (FilipeMarch)
• Apply a patch from SDL upstream that fixes orientation settings #2730 (misl6)
• Support permission properties (maxSdkVersion and usesPermissionFlags) + remove WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission, which has been previously declared by default #2725 (misl6)
• Merge master in develop #2721 (misl6)

v2022.12.20

Highlights:

• Minimal and recommended Android NDK version is now 25b
• MIN_TARGET_API has been updated to 30 and RECOMMENDED_TARGET_API in order to comply with Google Play Store requirements.
• android.activity now offers Application.ActivityLifecycleCallbacks helpers.
• SDL2, SDL2_ttf, SDL2_mixer, SDL2_image recipes has been updated to latest stable releases.
• Now service notifications are highly customisable!

Full changelog:

• InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_MULTI_LINE forces InputType.TYPE_TEXT even if SDLActivity.keyboardInputType is NULL #2716 (misl6)
• secp256k1 Update "--host=" #2714 (RobertFlatt)
• Delete pythonforandroid/recipes/cdecimal directory #2713 (RobertFlatt)
• Bump sdl2 version to 2.26.1 #2712 (misl6)
• Flake8 does not support inline comments for any of the keys. #2708 (misl6)
• Gradle: Run the clean task before anything else to make sure nothing is cached. #2705 (misl6)
• Custom Service notification #2703 (RobertFlatt)
• Include paths for sdl2_mixer have changed. Added a method to return the right one. #2700 (misl6)
• WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE maxSdk #2694 (RobertFlatt)
• Fixes an issue regarding blacklist and bytecode compile + some cleanup #2693 (misl6)
• Bump to a version of SDL with patches for the TextInput / TextEditing (SDL 2.26.0) #2692 (misl6)
• Make CI compile aiohttp again. #2690 (xavierfiechter)
• Add resources #2684 (RobertFlatt)
• Update MIN_TARGET_API to 30 and RECOMMENDED_TARGET_API to 33 #2683 (misl6)
• recipe.download_file: implement shallow git cloning #2682 (SomberNight)
• requirements: relax version bound on "pep517" #2680 (SomberNight)
• Add new Android permissions #2677 (RobertFlatt)
• Resize webview when keyboard is shown #2674 (dbnicholson)
• Update SDL2, SDL2_ttf, SDL2_mixer, SDL2_image to latest releases #2673 (misl6)
• Fixes libvpx build #2672 (misl6)
• toml may not be available on systemwide python #2670 (misl6)
• android/activity: Add Application.ActivityLifecycleCallbacks helpers #2669 (dbnicholson)
• Bump minimal and recommended Android NDK version to 25b #2668 (misl6)
• Include HOME in build environment #2582 (dbnicholson)

v2022.09.04

Highlights:

• This is the last release that defaults to Python 3.9 when building hostpython3 and python3. The next one will target Python 3.10
• This is the last release that uses Android NDK 23b by default, the next one will use Android NDK 25
• This is the last release that defaults to target API 27, the next one will default to target API 31, following the new requirement from Google for apps that need to be distributed on Play Store.
• In order to fully support API 31 and as a propaedeutic change for new features in Kivy, in the next release, python-for-android will use the new SDL2 releases.

Full changelog:

• liblzma: Use p4a_install instead of install, as a file named INSTALL is already present. #2663 (misl6)
• Force --platform=linux/amd64 in Dockerfile #2660 (misl6)
• Remove six and enum34 dependency #2657 (misl6)
• Update supported Python versions #2656 (misl6)
• Fixes some E275 - assert is a keyword. #2647 (misl6)
• Updates matplotlib, fixes an issue related to shared libc++ #2645 (misl6)
• RTSP support for ffmpeg #2644 (alicakici1234)
• Fixes TypeError: str.join() takes exactly one argument (2 given) in hostpython3/__init__.py", line 69 #2642 (Furtif)
• Resolve absolute path to local recipes #2640 (dbnicholson)
• Merges master into develop after release 2022.07.20 #2639 (misl6)
• Fix webview Back button behaviour #2636 (interlark)
• Add icon-bg and icon-fg to fix_args #2633 (danigm)
• Remove stray - in output file name #2581 (dbnicholson)
• Add option for adding files to res/xml without touching manifest #2330 (rambo)

v2022.07.20

Highlights:

• NDK 23 + Gradle 7 support
• Apple Silicon support (with NDK ≥ 24)
• Use shutil.which instead of sh.which (fixes an issue introduced by sh==1.14.3
• Updated scipy - lapack - numpy recipes
• Added LEGACY_NDK option to build lapack/scipy recipes with a separate NDK
• Now also webview and service bootstraps allow building multiarch artifacts.
• macOS prerequisites are now handled automatically, except for NDK and SDK.
• pythonforandroid.androidndk.AndroidNDK has been added in order to better handle NDK paths and configs.

Full changelog:

• Upgrading the flask version to avoid exception at the start of webview application #2560 (Prashanth-BC)
• add recipe for freetype-py to not include the prebuilt .so for the wr… #2558 (domedave)
• Update to Kivy 2.1.0 #2557 (RobertFlatt)
• tflite-runtime recipe #2554 (RobertFlatt)
• Update AndroidManifest.tmpl.xml #2551 (drahba)
• Update recipe.py (#2544) #2546 (misl6)
• Update python versions matrix on CI #2534 (misl6)
• Add ifaddr recipe #2527 (syrykh)
• Remove websocket-client recipe #2526 (syrykh)
• Fix build #2525 (correa)
• Add aaptOptions noCompress #2523 (RobertFlatt)
• Updated version of pygame from 2.0.1 to 2.1.0 #2520 (CAPTAIN1947)
• Bump Pillow version to 8.4.0 #2516 (misl6)
• Moved support-request to v2. v1 has been shut down. #2515 (misl6)
• Add support-requests configuration. #2514 (misl6)
• proper --host for libsecp256k1, libogg, libvorbis, libcurl #2512 (accumulator)
• Fix broken Contribute link #2505 (daMatz)
• Makes pep8 happy on sdl2 recipe #2504 (misl6)
• Fix broken recipes with missing arch.arch in get_site_packages_dir #2503 (misl6)
• added android permission ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION #2500 (xloem)
• GitHub Actions: Fixes wrong actions/checkout@v2 usage #2496 (misl6)
• Fixes ndk_include_dir on lxml recipe. #2495 (misl6)
• Move coveralls to github actions #2490 (misl6)
• Master #2489 (misl6)
• Add should_build method to sdl2 recipe #2482 (AndyRusso)
• AAB support related changes #2467 (misl6)
• services: fix START_STICKY #2401 (mzakharo)

v2022.03.13

Highlights:

• This is the first version of python-for-android that supports Android App Bundle (AAB) packaging
• Kivy recipe now targets Kivy 2.1.0 which is now the latest stable version available.
• AndroidManifest.tmpl.xml has been updated to support Android 12 devices.

Full changelog:

• Upgrading the flask version to avoid exception at the start of webview application #2560 (Prashanth-BC)
• add recipe for freetype-py to not include the prebuilt .so for the wr… #2558 (domedave)
• Update to Kivy 2.1.0 #2557 (RobertFlatt)
• tflite-runtime recipe #2554 (RobertFlatt)
• Update AndroidManifest.tmpl.xml #2551 (drahba)
• Update recipe.py (#2544) #2546 (misl6)
• Update python versions matrix on CI #2534 (misl6)
• Add ifaddr recipe #2527 (syrykh)
• Remove websocket-client recipe #2526 (syrykh)
• Fix build #2525 (correa)
• Add aaptOptions noCompress #2523 (RobertFlatt)
• Updated version of pygame from 2.0.1 to 2.1.0 #2520 (CAPTAIN1947)
• Bump Pillow version to 8.4.0 #2516 (misl6)
• Moved support-request to v2. v1 has been shut down. #2515 (misl6)
• Add support-requests configuration. #2514 (misl6)
• proper --host for libsecp256k1, libogg, libvorbis, libcurl #2512 (accumulator)
• Fix broken Contribute link #2505 (daMatz)
• Makes pep8 happy on sdl2 recipe #2504 (misl6)
• Fix broken recipes with missing arch.arch in get_site_packages_dir #2503 (misl6)
• added android permission ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION #2500 (xloem)
• GitHub Actions: Fixes wrong actions/checkout@v2 usage #2496 (misl6)
• Fixes ndk_include_dir on lxml recipe. #2495 (misl6)
• Move coveralls to github actions #2490 (misl6)
• Master #2489 (misl6)
• Add should_build method to sdl2 recipe #2482 (AndyRusso)
• AAB support related changes #2467 (misl6)
• services: fix START_STICKY #2401 (mzakharo)

v2021.09.05

• Drop travis-ci.org and use github-actions for pypi release #2487 (misl6)
• Upgrade grunt version re: CVE-2020-7729 #2484 (Zen-CODE)
• Recipe for pydantic #2480 (FilipeMarch)
• fix pandas recipe #2478 (mzakharo)
• Add *.diff to manifest and package_data #2471 (viblo)
• Fix bad library found by ctypes for 64-bit arch (#2468) #2469 (macdems)
• Updated version of pygame from 2.0.0-dev7 to 2.0.1 #2466 (ljnath)
• Adds libm to Pillow recipe #2465 (Sahil-pixel)
• Add missing mipmap directories to bootstraps. #2463 (rnixx)
• Move PythonActivityUtil.unpackData to PythonUtil.unpackData #2462 (rnixx)
• Websocket-client updated to 1.0.1 from 0.40.0 #2458 (akshayaurora)
• fixed redirection for download liblzma #2452 (td1803)
• update (host)python3 to 3.8.9 #2451 (obfusk)
• update sqlite3 #2449 (obfusk)
• build.py: also clean() tarfile directory entries #2447 (obfusk)
• android: add support for adaptive icon/launcher #2446 (SomberNight)
• Fix ImportError bug: cannot locate symbol "modf" #2445 (Neizvestnyj)
• update openssl #2443 (obfusk)
• Add libvpx recipe, reference it in ffpyplayer_codecs and ffmpeg #2440 (Cheaterman)
• Add setuptools dependency for Groestlcoin_hash recipe #2438 (gruve-p)
• set urllib user-agent #2437 (obfusk)
• setup.py: add *.diff to package_data #2436 (obfusk)
• Reintroduce documentation of android module #2432 (tito)
• Update __init__.py #2429 (Neizvestnyj)
• webview: flush cookies & improve shouldOverrideUrlLoading #2424 (obfusk)
• travis: update pip (fixes CI) #2422 (obfusk)
• update openssl #2421 (obfusk)
• Avoids build error for opencv and bumps version to 4.5.1 #2419 (thescheff)
• strip null bytes in call to androidembed.log() #2416 (obfusk)
• webview: put webview_includes in assets dir #2412 (obfusk)
• update setuptools #2409 (obfusk)
• update sqlite3 #2408 (obfusk)
• Update quickstart.rst macOS brew cask command #2407 (yestoday-tv)
• Added ability to set input type on android #2405 (dwmoffatt)
• PyZQM recipe needs setuptools, list it explicitly in deps #2404 (rambo)
• recipes: print recipe ENV on failure #2403 (mzakharo)
• recipes: scipy - fix build for armeabi-v7a #2402 (mzakharo)
• don't run git pull when not on a branch #2400 (obfusk)
• Fix Pymunk crash on older versions of Android #2399 (viblo)
• Recipe for argon2-cffi #2398 (Arjun-Somvanshi)
• update sqlite3 to 3.34.0 #2397 (obfusk)
• update openssl to 1.1.1i #2396 (obfusk)
• support Python 3.9 #2394 (obfusk)
• reproducible builds #2390 (obfusk)
• Update Pymunk recipe to 6.0.0 #2389 (viblo)
• webview: add mOpenExternalLinksInBrowser field #2387 (obfusk)
• webview: add enableZoom() method #2386 (obfusk)
• Enable AndroidX #2385 (RobertFlatt)
• ⬆️ Updates to Kivy2 #2384 (kuzeyron)
• fix travis #2383 (obfusk)
• 🐛 Fixes pip command on Travis and bumps actions/setup-python #2382 (AndreMiras)
• docs: fix simple typo, pacakged -> packaged #2377 (timgates42)
• Fix master only merges #2376 (inclement)
• Audiostream Fix #2375 (xloem)
• Add service information for buildozer.spec #2372 (xloem)
• recipes: add scipy support #2370 (mzakharo)
• fix CI #2368 (obfusk)
• support activity_launch_mode in webview bootstrap #2367 (obfusk)
• Support running tests on any arch #2355 (jayvdb)
• setup.py: Fix dependency syntax #2354 (jayvdb)
• added missing digest support to recipes #2351 (fuzzyTew)
• android: call non-static methods on .mActivity #2341 (obfusk)
• fix webview jni #2340 (obfusk)
• missing mActivity #2339 (zworkb)
• added few input parameters to make possible to use custom java classes and tweak AndroidManifest.xml #2338 (vesellov)
• ffmpeg and ffpyplayer improvements #2335 (rnixx)
• Add recipe for https://docs.aiohttp.org/en/stable/ #2332 (rambo)
• Update __init__.py for Report Lab recipe #2323 (marcets)
• Print patched message to stderr #2314 (rambo)
• Call cython via the setuptools entrypoint, fixes #2311 [#2312](https://github.com/kivy/py...