How to execute Python script from Java code in Android

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I'm trying to make an standard Android application execute a python script that could return values to Java, but I'm facing a lot of issues.

Jython doesnt support this in the Android environment, SL4A is a dead project, Kivi seems to be an full stack framework that do not use Java at all and QPython is SL4A that works on Android 5+ but almost don't have documentation.

I wanted something like:

// From INSIDE my Java Code
new PythonEngine().execute('a = 1 + 1').getInt('a')

With QPython I found an example that executes an arbitrary code, but I couldn't figure how to get the outcome and how to run the script without opening a new activity that waits for user input to come back.

Is that possible? The example can be found here QPython Java Sample

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Israel Fonseca

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How to execute Python script from Java code in Android