Building APK using Buildozer/Kivy

[thrasher-]

When attempting to build an APK (Electrum BTC) file on Ubuntu 16.04 & also Ubuntu 14.04 I get the following error message:

# Run 'curl http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py | venv/bin/python'
# Cwd /home/thrasher/Desktop/electrum/.buildozer
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# Install requirement hostpython2 in virtualenv
# Run 'pip install --target=/home/thrasher/Desktop/electrum/.buildozer/applibs hostpython2'
# Cwd /home/thrasher/Desktop/electrum/.buildozer
Collecting hostpython2
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement hostpython2 (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for hostpython2
# Command failed: pip install --target=/home/thrasher/Desktop/electrum/.buildozer/applibs hostpython2
# 
# Buildozer failed to execute the last command
# The error might be hidden in the log above this error
# Please read the full log, and search for it before
# raising an issue with buildozer itself.
# In case of a bug report, please add a full log with log_level = 2

Just wondering if anyone has encountered this before?

[readmodifywrite]

See this issue: kivy/python-for-android#620

tl;dr: in your buildozer.spec, add hostpython2 to the requirements option.

[sassystacks]

So the error in the #620 was: "AttributeError: 'Context' object has no attribute 'hostpython'". The error shown here is different. I have the same problem after adding hostpython2 to the requirements in the buildozer.spec file I received a similar error. If anyone has a suggestion what might be wrong would really appreciate it. Thanks!

Install requirement hostpython2 in virtualenv

Run 'pip install --target=/home/kivy/Desktop/Myprojects/.buildozer/applibs hostpython2'

Cwd /home/kivy/Desktop/Myprojects/.buildozer

Collecting hostpython2
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement hostpython2 (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for hostpython2

Command failed: pip install --target=/home/kivy/Desktop/Myprojects/.buildozer/applibs hostpython2

Buildozer failed to execute the last command

The error might be hidden in the log above this error

Please read the full log, and search for it before

raising an issue with buildozer itself.

In case of a bug report, please add a full log with log_level = 2

[inclement]

@sassystacks This issue is unrelated to the one you have posted in. Please post the full log and problem description on the kivy-users mailing list (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kivy-users).

[Santiago-R]

I encountered this same error after a Kivy/Buildozer Virtual Machine reinstall, even with hostpython2 in the requirements.

Turned out I hadn't updated buildozer, as the documentation in the Virtual Machine indicates:

sudo pip install -U buildozer

All working well now!