Python Standalone Builds for Android

Standalone, redistributable CPython for Android (Bionic), published in the shape of astral-sh/python-build-standalone.

Highlights

• Upstream-compatible — same archive roots, flavors, PYTHON.json metadata, artifact naming, and release model; existing consumers work unchanged.
• Portable — a prefix relocates to any path.
• Reproducible — archives are byte-identical across hosts.
• Gated — a release is device-qualified by a receipt, or says it is not and stays off the default catalog. An opt-in edge channel follows the newest of either; see Channels.
• Two builds — a flagship compiled from source, and an upstream baseline for wider device coverage.

Getting Started

With uv, where <version> is a CPython version the catalog lists:

$ uv python install cpython-<version>-linux-aarch64-none \
    --python-downloads-json-url \
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/daylight-00/python-build-standalone-android/latest-release/download-metadata.json

Or extract an archive from the releases page:

$ tar -xzf cpython-<version>+<tag>-aarch64-linux-android-install_only.tar.gz
$ ./python/bin/python3

Builds

One triple, aarch64-linux-android (arm64-v8a), with a build option per distribution:

Build Option	Produced From	Minimum Android	uv Catalog
(none) — flagship	CPython source	14 (API 34)	download-metadata.json
upstream — baseline	the official Python.org Android package	7.0 (API 24)	download-metadata-upstream.json

• Minimums — neither is chosen here; each follows a stated rule, in the API policy.
• Choosing — Choosing a Build says which to want.

Documentation

• docs/running.md — obtaining and running distributions
• docs/building.md — building, checking, and qualifying
• docs/quirks.md — where Android differs from a POSIX host
• docs/technotes.md — why the build is the way it is
• docs/distributions.md — the archive contract and its metadata
• docs/status.md — what is supported, and what deliberately is not

License

• This repository — MIT, except two files that say where they came from.
• Distributions — carry third-party code under its own terms, such as CPython and OpenSSL; see Licensing.