Toga supported plaforms

Official platform support

Desktop platforms

OS X

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The backend for OS X is named toga-cocoa. It supports OS X 10.7 (Lion) and later. It is installed automatically on OS X machines (machines that report sys.platform == 'darwin'), or can be manually installed by invoking:

$ pip install toga[cocoa]

The OS X backend has seen the most development to date.

Linux

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The backend for Linux platforms is named toga-gtk. It supports GTK+ 3.4 and later. It is installed automatically on Linux machines (machines that report sys.platform == 'linux'), or can be manually installed by invoking:

$ pip install toga[gtk]

The GTK+ backend is reasonably well developed, but currently has some known issues with widget layout.

Win32

The backend for Windows is named toga-win32. It supports Windows XP or later. It is installed automatically on Windows machines (machines that report sys.platform == 'win32'), or can be manually installed by invoking:

$ pip install toga[win32]

The Windows backend is currently proof-of-concept only. Most widgets have not been implemented.

Mobile platforms

iOS

The backend for iOS is named toga-iOS. It supports iOS 6 or later. It must be manually installed into an iOS Python project (such as one that has been developed using the Python-iOS-template cookiecutter). It can be manually installed by invoking:

$ pip install toga[iOS]

The iOS backend is currently proof-of-concept only. Most widgets have not been implemented.

Planned platform support

There are plans to provide support for the following platforms:

  • Web (using Batavia to run Python on the browser)
  • Android
  • WinRT (Native Windows 8 and Windows mobile)
  • Qt (for KDE based desktops)

If you are interested in these platforms and would like to contribute, please get in touch on Twitter or Gitter.

Unofficial platform support

At present, there are no known unofficial platform backends.