Creating Apps in Kivy: Mobile with Python

Dusty Phillips

Apr 2014 · "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

About this ebook

Build mobile apps efficiently with Kivy, the Python-powered graphical toolkit for creating natural user interfaces with elegant multitouch support. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn step-by-step how to build and deploy a complete Kivy app for iOS and Android devices. If you’re just beginning to work with Python, but are reasonably familiar with its syntax, you’re ready to go.

Each chapter includes exercises, using examples that run on Python 3 and Python 2.7. Learn how Kivy simplifies mobile development with its cross-platform API and domain-specific Kv language, and why this free and open source toolkit is ideal for commercial products.

• Design custom widgets with the Kv language
• Delve into Kivy events, event handlers, and properties
• Dynamically change which Kivy widgets are displayed
• Understand and apply iterative development principles
• Create basic animations, using Canvas and graphics primitives
• Store local data with Kivy’s powerful key value store
• Add basic gestures to switch between app views
• Improve your app’s usability with Kivy’s built-in widgets
• Deploy the app to your Android or iOS device, using Buildozer

Ratings and reviews

This book is very interesting. The author wrote the stages of creating applications. I was glad to read how to write the mobile application for get information about weather in fixed location from site and show this information to user. Very good were explained the questions about get information of gps location. This book was very helpful for know how to use function UrlRequest for work in network. The author explains how to work with the errors and the exceptions. This book was very helpful for know how to create user interface in Kivy applications. The author tells about the design of the mobile applications.

Had a lot of trouble with the weather app, but not bad.

About the author

Dusty Phillips is a Canadian software engineer and author. He holds a master's degree in computer science and is an active member of various open source communities, most notably Python, Arch Linux, and Gittip. He has written two previous books and won the 2010 Django Dash.