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November 2022 Status Update: beeware.org/news/buzz/nove…

October 2022 Status Update: beeware.org/news/buzz/octo…

I had an amazing experience working on FOSS projects in the sprints. I made my first-ever contribution to @PyBeeWare in briefcase & briefcase-template repo, and got this coin with a handshake from @freakboy3742

Python 3.11 was released today - and BeeWare is proud to announce that Briefcase support for Python 3.11 on macOS, iOS and Linux has been published as well! Android support will be coming early next week.

First Challenge Coin of the #DjangoCon Sprints - @hops_and_smoke!

Want to know what’s coming up for BeeWare in Q4 2022? We’ve just published our roadmap: beeware.org/news/buzz/2022…

@MustafaGeo Conda as a base isn’t an option (yet), so it’s a moot point; but we won’t adopt anything unless licensing terms are compatible with what is possible today. However, I’m expecting it will be more of a “conda as a package source” than needing to integrate conda itself.

@PyBeeWare If conda is used as a base, will there be licesning changes :(?

September 2022 Status Update: beeware.org/news/buzz/sept…

Another new bee in the hive - Malcolm Smith! github.com/mhsmith Malcolm brings his considerable experience maintaining @chaquopy, which has been invaluable in improving BeeWare’s Android support. We’re incredibly excited to have him on the team!

Welcome a new bee to the hive - Russell Martin! github.com/rmartin16 Russell has been making huge contributions to Briefcase over the last few months. We’re incredibly excited to have him on the team!

If there’s a package you want for Android, open a ticket on the Chaquopy repository: github.com/chaquo/chaquop… for iOS packages, open a ticket here: github.com/freakboy3742/c… These are temporary homes; we want to move to a “forge”-style community-managed model in the near future.

For a full list of the packages that are supported, see chaquo.com/pypi-7.0/ for Android, and anaconda.org/beeware/repo for the list of iOS packages.

Do you want to use numpy, cryptography, or another third-party binary module in your iOS or Android project? Now you can! Briefcase v0.3.10 has just been released, with support for binary third-party modules on mobile platforms!

@hynek @MustafaGeo Yeah - it’s a different use case. Briefcase is focussed on the “Desktop GUI app” use case, which also maps well to “Mobile app”; packaging a command-line tool has a very different set of requirements (not the least of which is “a single (binary) artefact”).

@MustafaGeo @PyBeeWare Last time I tried (and according to their front page: still) it’s not for single binaries like I want for CLI usage.

TIL: You Can Build Portable Binaries of Python Applications hynek.me/til/python-por…

August 2022 Status Update: beeware.org/news/buzz/augu…

@heliodsn On mobile, the situation hasn’t changed that much; we’re expecting to start looking at “large scale navigation” widgets towards the end of this year. For now, the best option is to manually swap the top-level container widget in code. Not ideal, but it works.

@PyBeeWare Just got in touch with the "framework" and your job is awesome! But the majority of apps I see with BeeWare are "one screen only". Do you have implemented a "Nav. Drawer" like this from 2019 github.com/beeware/toga/i… ? What is the recommendation for navigation today?

@RubenKelevra I suspect very little. Native apps are very different beasts to web-GUI apps.

It may not look like much - but this is a test suite running CPython on iOS… that is loading it’s standard library from binary modules. There’s still some things to sort out, but binary extension module support for iOS is getting *really* close.