After months fine tuning the windows version of the app, I put the project files into docker through the windows system for Linux (Ubuntu) and made the edits to the buildozer.spec file. It is now generating the first APK version of the app... The process is taking hours (4 so far) but it is doing a great deal of work behind the scenes.

In addition to python, it also requires kivy, kivymd, pandas, numpy, requests and beautifulsoup4. They take time to compile in c for use on the ARM architecture of an android phone. This long initial phase was expected, and future updates will take far less time. I will get to test this when removing Cash4Life later this month.

I expect no easy ride at any phase of this, but the potential is I could have a functioning app on the phone tonight!