I wrote a podcast generator based on AI related papers that ingest the podcast dialogues, voices, tag, assemble audio et publish RSS automatically. I was inspired by the PDF ingestion of OpenAI and the quality of the TTS.
SEEKING WORK | France (UTC-1) | Remote | Full stack developer
My name is Mathieu Virbel, and I am a consultant on system and software architecture with over 12 years of experience as a consultant and 20 years into programming. I have a passion for creating innovative and user-friendly applications. I specialize in using the open-source Kivy framework to develop desktop and mobile applications, but I am also skilled in other technologies and frameworks.
I worked on a variety of subjects, from Interactives and mobile application for Museum and Public Institutions, Embedded system in security company, telecommunication, and Startups environments from scratch. Recently playing with Python, Golang, VueJS 3/Typescript, InfluxDB, Docker Swarm, as well as writing specifications and reviewing code of others contractors.
SEEKING WORK | France (UTC-1) | Remote | Full stack developer
My name is Mathieu Virbel, and I am a consultant on system and software architecture with over 12 years of experience as a freelance and 20 years in the field. I have a passion for creating innovative and user-friendly applications. I specialize in using the open-source Kivy framework to develop desktop and mobile applications, but I am also skilled in other technologies and frameworks.
I worked on a variety of subjects, from Interactives and mobile application for Museum and Public Institutions, Embedded system in security company, telecommunication, and Startups environments from scratch. Recently playing with Python, Golang, VueJS 3/Typescript, InfluxDB, Docker Swarm, as well as writing specifications and reviewing code of others contractors.
My name is Mathieu Virbel, and I am a consultant on system and software architecture with over 12 years of experience as a freelance and 20 years in the field. I have a passion for creating innovative and user-friendly applications. I specialize in using the open-source Kivy framework to develop desktop and mobile applications, but I am also skilled in other technologies and frameworks.
I worked on a variety of subjects, from Interactives and mobile application for Museum and Public Institutions, Embedded system in security company, telecommunication, and Startups environments from scratch. Recently playing with Python, Golang, VueJS 3/Typescript, InfluxDB, Docker Swarm, as well as writing specifications and reviewing code of others contractors.
Shameless plug here. I'm working for https://cozyair.fr - keeping a good indoor air quality is good for both the user but also the the building.
CO2 is not the only factor you should look at, PM are also dangerous when you cook, or when there is outside pollution. NO2/O3 is an outdoor air pollution that we watch. Because the only way to get out the CO2 is ventilation / open your windows for a few minutes. But it can bring another kind of pollution depending your area.
A minimal hello world with Python 3 required 7MB. But it's not optimized.
Unlike pyinstaller, we don't scan import to try reducing the distribution on the phone. Instead we have a blacklist.txt which you can put file pattern to exclude during packaging.
I remember for one app in Python 2 to reduce the size around the 5MB.
We won't be able to reduce much more, as Python interpreter is embedded. We also don't want to adopt an approach like Qt where Qt binaries can be shared for all Qt-application, which break the all-in-one APK, open some potential issues, and add more work to manage dependencies.
Please note that Python for Android project is not meant to be used with Kivy only anymore.
It's a project that allow you to compile Python and dependencies, and package it along your own application. You could for example compile Numpy, ZMQ, sqlalchemy, zeroconf, etc...
We have a mechanism called bootstrap that allow you to select your primary technology that you're going to use for your application, such as "sdl2" (required for kivy), "webview" (it just start a webpage that connect to your phone port 5000, so you can start an embed webserver such as Flask to serve your app), "service_only" (if you don't need any kind of UI). New bootstrap can be written to support another type of apps.
Also, you could embed your whole UI in pure java if you wanted too, as the directory libs (to include .jar) or src (to include .java) are compiled. So you can imagine having your app in Java, but still call Python for something else if you really wanted too.
Just an addition, there is many others alternatives, but it may be hard for others to be able to compile the Python extensions you want (or impossible). That's what we wanted to do here: ability to pick the extension needed, provide a "recipe" that contain specialized tricks or patches to extension for running in Android, etc.
> So you can imagine having your app in Java, but still call Python for something else if you really wanted too.
That's a pretty interesting possibility, I might tinker with this. I don't mind Java, but vastly prefer Python+numpy+scipy for technical computing and algorithmic experimentation. Java for the GUI/platform specific stuff with the creative stuff in Python works well for some side projects that I've done. In those cases, I interfaced them via REST API to a server, then later translated to pure Java.
It is named https://paperbrief.net