the "native app" part of building an "app" is somewhat trivial in comparison to the backend needs.
Read this article here on what instagram uses for their architecture: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/what-powers-instagram-hundreds-of-instances-dozens-of As you can see, most of it is Python libraries, some of which are django specific, some of which aren't (note, theya are using custom written task system instead of using Celery - not sure why this is). As I understand it, interpreted languages on phones simply take up too much space and memory. I know some companies have used http://www.appcelerator.com/<http://www.appcelerator.com/developers> with good success That said, unless all you want to your app to do is only interact with the user from within the phone and never get information from outside of it or send information outside of it, then I suppose you won't be able to use Python to any degree. But, if you do, then you can write fantastic apps using python libraries for the backend needs. On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Chris Fox <ch...@robotninja.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/08/2012 19:18, James Reynolds wrote: > > Instagram is written in python django. > > > > Even if that were true (Django is, as I understand it, a web > framework) - how does that information help the original poster? > > Chris > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlAdabcACgkQ/UgLKfoJxI5f9QCgwA1LR2S0EqUpxWqlFaGE9Dl6 > yGEAoLqYlTDn6kZWrZ+PN20uqpmsSbPJ > =Oeru > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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