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Kivy Cookbook

Kivy Cookbook

By : Hugo Solis, Solis
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Kivy Cookbook

Kivy Cookbook

2.5 (2)
By: Hugo Solis, Solis

Overview of this book

Kivy is an open-source Python library for rapid development of applications that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps. It is a promising Python framework to develop UI and UX apps in a cross-platform environment, under the Python philosophy. Kivy Cookbook is a practical book that will guide you through the Kivy framework to develop apps and get your apps ready for distribution in App Store and Android devices. You will start off with installing Kivy and building your interfaces. You will learn how to work the accelerometer and create custom events. Then, you will understand how to use the basics, buttons, labels and text inputs and manipulate the widget tree. Next, you will be able to work with manipulating instructions, create an atlas and layouts. Moving on, you will learn packing for Windows and packing for iOS, and use TestDrive. By the end of the book, you will have learnt in detail the relevant features and tools in Kivy and how to create portable packages to distribute your apps in the most used platforms.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Packaging for iOS


iOS devices are probably the most popular mobile devices. So, it is important to learn how to distribute our app on this platform. Even though we do not have to change the code for our app, we need to generate a package with Python, Kivy, and the additional libraries in order to run our app on an iOS device. In this recipe, we are going to learn how to package a simple app that does not require additional libraries.

Getting ready

First, you must enroll in the iOS developer program to test the app packaged on a real iOS device. If you are not already a part of this program, visit https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/ to learn how to enroll in it.

Second, we need to install kivy-iOS in the OS X machine that we are working on. This compilation of Kivy has the following dependencies:

  • autoconf

  • automake

  • libtool

  • pkg-config

  • Cython (version 0.21.2)

  • git

After getting them installed on the OS X machine, we must get the kivy-iOS from the terminal to the folder of our choice:

$ git clone...

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