pygame for iOS (2998) #1518
Description
Issue №2998 opened by glyph at 2022-01-21 01:11:30
I see there is an issue for android # 727 but I did not see one for iOS.
It would be nice to be able to trivially port PyGame games to iOS and iPadOS devices, I hear the kids are using a lot of these newfangled mobile computers now.
Comments
# # glyph commented at 2022-01-21 06:49:16
Looks like this has come upon Reddit before, for posterity: https://www.reddit.com/r/pygame/comments/q0f6uv/advice_for_using_pygame_for_ios_games/
# # illume commented at 2022-01-22 20:27:05
Renpy is shipping pygame_sdl2 on iOS. They added a note about what to do about the LGPL in the issue tracker there. Basically promise to give the source makes it possible. I am not a lawyer. Several other LGPL and interpreted apps exist on there now.
The approach of making an iOS app, and then linking in python and the rest with apple tooling is probably easiest.
Another alternative is to use web technology, and use pygame on iOS that way.
I find it semi hilarious that iOS devices are now more powerful than educational laptops. But I still expect the experimental sdl2 Render API would be required or SCALED up scaling.