What actually happened was I started using Codea, and when Pythonista came along I switched to that, and nothing comparable on Android ever materialised.
About 6 or 7 years ago I was seriously considering getting an Android tablet because I expected the on-device dev story there to pull well ahead of iOS in the near future and wanted to be able to take advantage of that. You seem to be arguing that in theory Apple's policies _should_ be holding iOS dev apps back compared to Android, but in reality that just isn't happening, even slightly. The dev apps for iOS are streets ahead of anything on Android. It's hard to imagine what else it could really need.īut let's compare it to the other major phone and tablet OS for a start. You can get Dropbox and Github Gist sync scripts pretty easily, I used to use an FTP server script a lot before iCloud integration came along. It has a fully feature integrated syntax highlighting editor, a built-in GUI form designer, graphics and media libraries for games, an integrated debugger, custom keyboard, a selection of Python third party modules such as scipy and Matplotlib, all the standard Python docs and tutorials and included module docs, full integration with share sheets, notifications, widgets, it's a universal app for iPhone and iPad, it integrates with the Github client apps such as Working Copy and it has built-in iCloud syncing for script folders. Compared to pretty much anything - honestly.
