Plyer
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Plyer is a platform-independent api to use features commonly found on various
platforms, notably mobile ones, in Python.

How
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Plyer tries not to reinvent the wheel, and will call for external libraries to
implement the api in the easiest way, depending on the current platform.

- on python-for-android, pyjnius is used
- on kivy-ios, pyobjus is used
- on windows/mac/linux, commonly found libraries and programs will be used

Support
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Platform                           Android < 4.0 Android > 4.0 iOS Windows OSX Linux
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Accelerometer                      X             X             X           X   X
Camera (taking picture)            X             X
GPS                                X             X             X
Notifications                      X             X                 X       X   X
Text to speech                     X             X             X   X       X   X
Email (open mail client)           X             X             X   X       X   X
Vibrator                           X             X
Sms (send messages)                X             X
Compass                            X             X             X
Unique ID (IMEI or SN)             X             X             X   X       X   X
Gyroscope                          X             X             X
Battery                            X             X             X   X       X   X
Native file chooser                                                X       X   X
Orientation                        X             X
Audio recording                    X             X
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