Do you want to distribute your Python applications to other users who don’t have or even use Python? Maybe you’re interested in seeing your Python application run on iOS or Android mobile devices. This week on the show we have Russell Keith-Magee, the founder and maintainer of the BeeWare project. Russell talks about Briefcase, a tool that converts a Python application into native installers on macOS, Windows, Linux, and mobile devices.
We spend some time digging into BeeWare’s cross-platform widget toolkit named Toga. Russell talks about some of the intricacies of converting graphical user interface components from across multiple computing platforms. If you’re interested in contributing to an open source project, he discusses how you could get involved in the project. We also talk about the struggle of getting funding for open source projects.
In this course on Python decorators, you’ll learn what they are and how to create and use them. Decorators provide a simple syntax for calling higher-order functions in Python. By definition, a decorator is a function that takes another function and extends the behavior of the latter function without explicitly modifying it.
Topics:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:36 – History of the BeeWare project
00:05:20 – Is having separate tools helpful?
00:07:06 – Gaming frameworks in Briefcase
00:09:05 – How is Briefcase different from similar tools?
00:14:36 – Platform considerations 32bit vs 64bit
00:16:27 – Coming Mac hardware platform changes
00:18:20 – TOML: Background, use in Python projects, and Briefcase
00:26:29 – How is the project going for different platforms?
00:32:09 – Android hardware as a developer test device
00:36:14 – Making Toga (GUI) cross platform
00:41:21 – What type of interface widgets are available in Toga?
00:44:26 – Video Course Spotlight
00:45:37 – Distribution to the web as a platform
00:49:54 – What is WASM (Web Assembly)?
00:53:26 – Version numbering for BeeWare projects
00:56:23 – What is your day-to-day involvement in the project?
00:58:32 – How would someone get involved in the project?
01:05:15 – Funding open-source projects
01:13:31 – Including a smaller version of Python
01:17:08 – What are you currently excited about?
01:22:17 – What are you interested in learning next?
01:23:07 – Thanks and Goodbye
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