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by freakboy3742 3377 days ago
AFAIK, Plyer will give you access to native APIs like accelerometers, but not to the native GUI layer.

An alternative approach is VOC (http://pybee.org/voc) - this is compiler that takes Python code, and output Java bytecode. This means you can use the Android native UI components, because your Python code becomes indistinguishable from code written in Java. Combine with Briefcase (http://pybee.org/briefcase), and you can get an Android app with one command; combine with Toga (http://pybee.org/toga), and you can get a cross platform app using native system components.

If you want to see this in action, here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RisCgSIWwLA

(Full disclosure - I'm the primary author of these tools)

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Hey Freakboy, always good to see your coding projects. Keep up the good work!