Pygame(-ce) support for Android/iOS

[TheUnknownHack3r]

As I understand it, briefcase doesn't support pygame and pygame-ce for Android and iOS.
I came across this demo showcasing a simple touchscreen pong game made in Pygame. This makes me wonder.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or spitting out nonsense, though. ^w^

[freakboy3742]

Briefcase is already able to support both PyGame and PyGame-CE apps. Briefcase should be able to wrap any GUI framework that can be installed from wheels.

There's no built-in bootstrap for either; but PyGame CE provides a bootstrap (see the docs of the new command for details. It should be possible for Pygame to do the same; or you can select "no gui toolkit" in the new project wizard, and write the entire app from scratch.

[TheUnknownHack3r]

Yes, Briefcase does support pygame(-ce). But it doesn't currently support mobile deployment as shown here.

  1) Toga
  2) PySide6   (does not support iOS/Android/Web deployment)
  3) Pygame    (does not support iOS/Android/Web deployment)
  4) Console   (does not support iOS/Android/Web deployment)
  5) pygame_ce (does not support iOS/Android deployment)
  6) None

I did attempt to use None and use pygame-ce anyway, but I get a "no module named pygame" error when I run the android app in the emulator.

I'm just wondering what it'd take to add support.

[mhsmith]

First the support would need to be added by Pygame themselves. Briefcase is only a packaging tool, it can't enable a GUI framework to be used on a platform it doesn't support.

[TheUnknownHack3r]

@mhsmith Ah, I see. I'll close this discussion then.