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The Pygame Subset for Android is a port of a subset of
`Pygame <http://www.pygame.org>`_ functionality to the
`Android <http://www.android.org>`_ platform. The goal of the
project is to allow the creation of Android-specific games, and
to ease the porting of games from PC-like platforms to Android.

Downloads
---------

The Pygame Subset for Android can be downloaded at:

    http://pygame.renpy.org/dl

Please see the :ref:`changelog` for a list of changes between versions. The source code and bug tracker can
be found on launchpad, at:

    https://launchpad.net/pgs4a

Support
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The best place to get Pygame Subset for Android support is `our forum <http://pygame.renpy.org/forum/>`_.
   
Documentation
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   android-packaging
   writing
   api
   android-advanced   
   developing
   changelog
   
License and Credits
-------------------

The Pygame Subset for Android is licensed under the `GNU Lesser General
Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html>`_.  To the best
of our knowledge, Pygame, SDL, and all other dependences are licensed
under compatible licenses.

The Pygame Subset for Android is by:

* Tom Rothamel (*tom at rothamel.us*)
* Patrick Dawson (*pkdawson at gmail.com*)

It integrates code from an number of projects, including:

* `Pygame <http://www.pygame.org/>`_
* `SDL <http://www.libsdl.org>`_ (including `Pelya's Android port
  <http://www.anddev.org/code-snippets-for-android-f33/sdl-port-for-android-sdk-ndk-1-6-t9218.html>`_)
* `Python <http://www.python.org>`_
* `Jtar <http://code.google.com/p/jtar/>`_
* `Jinja2 <http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/>`_
* `Colorama <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorama>`_

