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Python-for-Android

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services

You can optionally specify the following parameters: :foreground for launching a service as an Android foreground service :sticky for launching a service that gets restarted by the Android OS on exit/error

— https://python-for-android.readthedocs.io/en/develop/services.html

command with all the optional parameters included would be: –service=myservice:services/myservice.py:foreground:sticky

— https://python-for-android.readthedocs.io/en/develop/services.html

you shouldn’t just save to the current directory, and not hardcode sdcard or some other path either - it might differ per device.

— https://python-for-android.readthedocs.io/en/latest/apis.html

from android.storage import app_storage_path settings_path = app_storage_path()

from android.storage import primary_external_storage_path primary_ext_storage = primary_external_storage_path()

from android.storage import secondary_external_storage_path secondary_ext_storage = secondary_external_storage_path()

— https://python-for-android.readthedocs.io/en/latest/apis.html

Only the internal storage is always accessible with no additional permissions. For both primary and secondary external storage, you need to obtain Permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and the user may deny it.

— https://python-for-android.readthedocs.io/en/latest/apis.html

may only allow your app to write to the common pre-existing folders like “Music”, “Documents”, and so on

— https://python-for-android.readthedocs.io/en/latest/apis.html

need to request runtime permissions to access the SD card, the camera, and other things.

— https://python-for-android.readthedocs.io/en/latest/apis.html

from android.permissions import request_permissions, Permission request_permissions([Permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE])

— https://python-for-android.readthedocs.io/en/latest/apis.html

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