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I'm not aware of anyone having succeeded with Jython - I think there are technical issues but I'm not sure what's the nature of the problem.

One option for interacting with java from python is to use tools like pyjnius (http://pyjnius.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - this is what e.g. Kivy does to get system information like screen metrics.

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MicroPython Android support mentioned above is exactly inspired by pyjnius. My initial interest for uPy Android is to just hack on Android, not produce walled-garden (APK) apps. But I intended to post about this effort on Kivy list to see if someone might be interested. The idea might be to have something small, like https://love2d.org/ , but in Python. Note that I myself not really interested in cloning love2d, but if some readers of these comments would find idea interesting and could spread the word to Kivy circles, that would be appreciated (you never know what may come up if wide community gets involved - that's the beauty of Open Source).

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