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<em>Build native Android and iOS apps in Python.</em>

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<a href="https://docs.pythonnative.com/">Documentation</a> ·

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<a href="CONTRIBUTING.md">Contributing</a>

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PythonNative is a cross-platform toolkit for building native Android and iOS apps in Python. It provides a Pythonic API for native UI components, lifecycle events, and device capabilities, powered by Chaquopy on Android and rubicon-objc on iOS. Write your app once in Python and run it on both platforms with genuinely native interfaces.

- **Cross-platform native UI:** Build Android and iOS apps from a single Python codebase with truly native rendering.

- **Direct native bindings:** Python calls platform APIs directly through Chaquopy and rubicon-objc, with no JavaScript bridge.

- **Unified component API:** Components like `Page`, `StackView`, `Label`, `Button`, and `WebView` share a consistent interface across platforms.

- **CLI scaffolding:** `pn init` creates a ready-to-run project structure; `pn run android` and `pn run ios` build and launch your app.

- **Page lifecycle:** Hooks for `on_create`, `on_start`, `on_resume`, `on_pause`, `on_stop`, and `on_destroy`, with state save and restore.

- **Navigation:** Push and pop screens with argument passing for multi-page apps.

- **Rich component set:** Core views (Label, Button, TextField, ImageView, WebView, Switch, DatePicker, and more) plus Material Design variants.

- **Bundled templates:** Android Gradle and iOS Xcode templates are included, so scaffolding requires no network access.

pip install pythonnative

import pythonnative as pn

class MainPage(pn.Page):

def __init__(self, native_instance):

super().__init__(native_instance)

def on_create(self):

super().on_create()

stack = pn.StackView()

stack.add_view(pn.Label("Hello from PythonNative!"))

button = pn.Button("Tap me")

button.set_on_click(lambda: print("Button tapped"))

stack.add_view(button)

self.set_root_view(stack)

Visit [docs.pythonnative.com](https://docs.pythonnative.com/) for the full documentation, including getting started guides, platform-specific instructions for Android and iOS, API reference, and working examples.

Contributions are welcome. Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for setup instructions, coding standards, and guidelines for submitting pull requests.

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