There are several ways to use Python on Android. The following table summarizes those projects which are currently active:

||<style="text-align: center;"|2> '''Project''' ||<style="text-align: center;"-2> '''General''' ||<style="text-align: center;"-4> '''APIs''' ||<style="text-align: center;"-3> '''Build''' ||
|| '''Python versions''' || '''Google&nbsp;Play links''' || '''User interface''' || '''Android APIs''' || '''Call&nbsp;Python from Java''' || '''Native Python packages''' || '''Standalone APK''' || '''iOS''' || '''Desktop OSs''' ||
|| '''[[https://beeware.org|BeeWare]]''' is a toolkit for developing cross-platform apps with native user interfaces. Its Android support is based on Chaquopy. ||<style="text-align: left"|2> 3.8 - 3.12 || None ||<style="text-align: left"|2> Native Android ||<style="text-align: left"|2> All ||<style="text-align: left"|2> [[https://chaquo.com/chaquopy/doc/current/java.html|Yes]] ||<style="text-align: left"|2> [[https://chaquo.com/pypi-13.1/|List]] ||Yes || Yes || Yes ||
|| '''[[https://chaquo.com/chaquopy/|Chaquopy]]''' is a plugin for Android Studio's Gradle-based build system. || [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chaquo.python.demo3|Demo]] || Yes || No || No ||
|| '''[[https://kivy.org/docs/guide/android.html|Kivy]]''' is a cross-platform OpenGL-based user interface toolkit. || 2.7, 3.5, 3.6 || [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kivy.showcase|Demo]] || Kivy || All via PyJNIus or Plyer || Via interface || [[https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/tree/develop/pythonforandroid/recipes|List]] || Yes || Yes || Yes ||
|| '''[[https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqtdeploy/intro|pyqtdeploy]]''' is a tool for deploying PyQt applications. || 3.6 || None || Qt || Some via Qt || No || Some || Yes || Yes || Yes ||
|| '''[[http://www.qpython.com/|QPython]]''' is an on-device script engine and development environment. || 2.7, 3.2, 3.6 || [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.qpython.qpy|QPython]] || Kivy, SL4A || All via PyJNIus or SL4A || No || [[http://qpypi.qpython.org/search/|List]] || No || No || No ||
|| '''[[https://termux.com/|Termux]]''' is a Linux distribution for Android that ships Python as well as a local build environment || 2.7, 3.6 || [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux|Termux]] <<BR>> [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux.api|Termux:API]]  || Terminal || Some via Termux:API || No || Any where dependencies are packaged || No || No || No ||

In addition, there are a number of projects which are inactive or incomplete:

 * SL4A (Scripting Layer for Android), originally named ASE (Android Scripting Environment), is a set of "facades" which expose a greatly-simplified subset of the Android API. The project was originally developed within Google, but is no longer supported by them. However, a fork  of the library is distributed with QPython.

 * PySide (the Python binding for the Qt toolkit) has some  [[http://qt-project.org/wiki/PySide_for_Android_guide|preliminary support]] for Android. 

 * Although Android's primary programming language is Java, there is no known port of [[Jython]] to the platform.