A github project named Kivy sounds like an interesting chance to try using python for mobile apps.
From the official site:
Kivy - Open source library for rapid development of applications
that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps.
Cross platform
Kivy is running on Linux, Windows, MacOSX, Android and IOS. You can run the same code on all supported platforms.
It can use natively most inputs protocols and devices like WM_Touch, WM_Pen, Mac OS X Trackpad and Magic Mouse, Mtdev, Linux Kernel HID, TUIO. A multi-touch mouse simulator is included.
Business Friendly
Kivy is 100% free to use, under LGPL 3 licence. The toolkit is professionnally developed, backed and used. You can use it in a product and sell your product.
The framework is stable and has a documented API, plus a programming guide to help for in the first step.
GPU Accelerated
The graphics engine is built over OpenGL ES 2, using modern and fast way of doing graphics.
The toolkit is coming with more than 20 widgets designed to be extensible. Many parts are written in C using Cython, tested with regression tests.
