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Flet at PyCon US 2024

· 2 min read
Feodor Fitsner
Feodor Fitsner
Flet founder and developer

Last week we attended PyCon US in a beautiful city of Pittsburgh, PA!

I've been on many conferences, but at PyCon I was amazed by the spacious venue, flawless event organization, high-quality content and welcoming community 😎, ...and good food 🍔!

We met a lot of great people and, especially, wonderful people from Beeware (hello Russell, Malcolm and Russell 👋). They did a great job of popularizing Python on mobile and advocating the addition of iOS and Android to the list of supported platforms in the next release of Python 3.13 🎉!

We enjoyed good talks and inspirational key notes, learned new things, enjoyed the city. Lightning talks (short 5-minute presentations) were real fun!

Oh, I saw Guido van Rossum (The Creator of Python himself, in case you didn't know 😅) at Microsoft booth, but didn't have a chance to take a picture with him as there was a line up 😉.

As first time attendees we did't do talks or presentations, but watched and learned instead. We plan to present next year 🤞.

Next PyCon US is going to be at the same place. Will come again and hope to see more of you there!

Flet packaging update

· 7 min read
Feodor Fitsner
Feodor Fitsner
Flet founder and developer

The problem​

When you package your Flet program in Python to run on a mobile device (or desktop) the resulting bundle (.apk, .ipa, .exe, .app) contains your Python program, Python interpreter and Python Standard Library.

If your program uses only Python standard library then packaging process is relatively easy - Flet zips your code and combines Flutter app together with Python interpreter and standard library both compiled for the target platform: Android or iOS.

However, problems may arise when your Flet program uses third-party packages, with thousands of them published on PyPI or Conda.