I would really love a Python API on Android. Unfortunately, Python as it exists now is way too inefficient to use on a mobile phone. Have you tried running a

I would really love a Python API on Android. Unfortunately, Python as it exists now is way too inefficient to use on a mobile phone. Have you tried running a Kivy app for more than a few minutes and watched your battery run down? Don't get me wrong -- that's not Kivy's fault really. It's the Python interpreter that's eating up the battery, not Kivy per se. And I'd like to say that there's hope in Pypy, but for the fact that PyPy uses up to twice the memory of regular Python. Now, there's no reason why Python couldn't efficiently run on mobile, but it'd have to be with an entirely different interpreter, or at least a significantly modified CPython. One that uses a register-based VM instead of a stack-based one, and makes a number of other bytecode and VM changes toward greater efficiency.