Windows Mobile development in Python

What is the best way to start developing Windows Mobile Professional applications in Python? Is there a reasonable SDK including an emulator? Is it even possible without doing excessive amount of underlaying Windows API calls for UI for instance?

Asked by: John755 | Posted: 28-01-2022

Answer 1

(I used to write customer apps for Windows Mobile.)

Forget about python. Even if it's technically possible:

your app will be big (you'll have to bundle the whole python runtime with your app)
your app will use lots of memory (python is a memory hog, relative to C/C++)
your app will be slow
you wont find any documentation or discussion groups to help you when you (inevitably) encounter problems

Go with C/C++ (or C#). Visual Studio 2005/2008 have decent tools for those (SDK for winmo built-in, debugging on the emulator or device connected through USB), the best documentation is for those technologies plus there are active forums/discussion groups/mailing lists where you can ask for help.

Answered by: Edgar891 | Posted: 01-03-2022

Answer 2

Python CE

Python port for Windows CE (Pocket PC) devices. Intended to be as close to desktop version as possible (console, current directory support, testsuite passed).

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Answered by: Maddie996 | Posted: 01-03-2022

Answer 3

If the IronPython and .Net Compact Framework teams work together, Visual Studio may one day support Python for Windows Mobile development out-of-the-box. Unfortunately, this feature request has been sitting on their issue tracker for ages...

Answered by: Carlos306 | Posted: 01-03-2022

Answer 4

Just found this: http://ejr44.blogspot.com/2008/05/python-for-windows-mobile-cab.html

Looks like a complete set of .CAB files to provide Python on Windows Mobile.

Answered by: Anna926 | Posted: 01-03-2022

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