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Kivy Blueprints

Kivy Blueprints

By : Vasilkov
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Kivy Blueprints

Kivy Blueprints

3.7 (10)
By: Vasilkov

Overview of this book

This book is intended for programmers who are comfortable with the Python language and who want to build desktop and mobile applications with rich GUI in Python with minimal hassle. Knowledge of Kivy is not strictly required—every aspect of the framework is described when it's first used.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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A. The Python Ecosystem
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Index

Summary

As we saw in this chapter, client-server application development (and generally speaking, networking on the application level) isn't necessarily inherently complex. Even the low-level code utilizing sockets is quite manageable.

There are, of course, many gray areas and aspects that are hard to get right when writing an app that makes heavy use of the network. Examples of these include working around high latency, restoring an interrupted connection, and syncing across a large number of nodes (especially peer-to-peer or multi-master, when none of the machines have the full dataset).

Another relatively new class of network problems is the political one. Lately, Internet regulations are being implemented by governments of varying oppressiveness, ranging from relatively logical (for example, blocking resources promoting terrorism) to completely nonsensical (for example, banning educational sites like Wikipedia, major news sites, or video games). This type of connectivity problem...

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