Using beeware/toga on Pythonista?

[cclauss]

https://beeware.org has been doing a lot of cool stuff to make Python native ui apps for macOS, iOS, Linux, Windows, Android, and web. Their Toga ui on iOS feels a lot like Pythonista’s ui module. It would be interesting to be able to build and perfect Toga apps on Pythonista and then move the code into a Briefcase project on your Mac to build for multiple platforms.

Would it be hard to get Toga working on Pythonista?

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/499/beeware-and-the-state-of-python-on-mobile

[ftourand-gmail]

Hello cclauss. I’m supporting you with the idea and interest of having an IDE allowing to develop single code running anywhere (as flet does :) across ios android …)

Is toga a pure python library or will it request to rebuild and release Pythonista at the rythm of toga changes/releases ?

Moreover, another python coding environment called pyto has been integrated Toga in the past, unfortunately the ablility to visually build ui was missing (which is a real strength of pythonista).

[cclauss]

The Toga repo is 99.9% Python and 0.1% CSS, so it is pure Python. However, it requires rubicon-objc which is ~4% Objective-C that would need to be compiled into Pythonista (if it is not already there).

objc_util in Pythonista seems to play a similar role as rubicon-objc so it might be quite difficult to make the switch.

[qqfunc]

As far as I know, Rubicon-ObjC doesn't require Objective-C compilation; the Objective-C code in the repository is only used for testing.

[jsbain]

@dgelessus was heavily involved in updating the Rubicon objc stuff, and I'm pretty sure it worked on pythonista. It was in part based on the pythonista objc_util, which was i think based in part on older Rubicon stuff. I believe the Rubicon fixed some of the bugs in obc_util, and made code a lot cleaner and less error prone. I never really transferred my stuff to Rubicon, but remember it was pretty slick.