vesellov/android-twisted-service

An example of background Twisted server running on Android

Sample Twisted web server running on your Android

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop

Install dependencies

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get upgrade

    sudo apt-get install git gcc make perl pkg-config autoconf libtool protobuf-compiler
    sudo apt-get install python3-pip openjdk-8-jdk python3-venv
    sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libffi-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libudev-dev
    sudo apt-get install python-zopeinterface python-twisted

    sudo pip3 install cython

Install buildozer

    make install_buildozer

Make sure to start from clean state

    make clean

Build APK image

    make

Connect and run on Android device

Enable "Developer Mode" on your Android device: https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/dev-options

Open another terminal window and run this to be able to catch Python logs from your Android:

    adb logcat | grep python

Now connect your device with USB cable and install APK file you just created:

    adb install -r bin/twistedsample-1.0.1-armeabi-v7a-debug.apk

On your device find "TwistedSample" application and start it. You will see a lot of output in another console window and will be able to monitor the service.

Now you can open web browser on your Android and open http://127.0.0.1:18000.

Hello, world!