/kivy

Open source software library for creating NUI applications, running on Windows, Linux, MacOSX, Android

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Kivy

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Introduction

Kivy is a Python library for development of multi-touch enabled media rich applications. The aim is to allow for quick and easy interaction design and rapid prototyping, while making your code reusable and deployable.

Kivy is written in Python and Cython, based on OpenGL ES 2, supports various input devices and have an extensive widgets library. With the same codebase, you can target Windows, OSX, Linux, Android and iOS. All our widgets are built with multitouch support.

Kivy is MIT licensed, actively developed by a great community, as well as all the projects managed by the Kivy organisation.

Installation, Documentation, Examples

Extensive installation instructions as well as tutorials and general documentation, including an API reference can be found at: http://kivy.org/docs/

An offline version in PDF format is also available. Kivy ships with a bunch of examples that can be found in the examples/ folder.

Support

If you need assistance, you can ask for help on our mailing list:

We also have an IRC channel (expect responses mostly in the day hours of CET):

  • Server : irc.freenode.net
  • Channel : #kivy

Others projects

Have a look at our complementary projects:

  • Buildozer: A robot that will do everything needed to package your application for iOS and Android. Ask him, wait, it's done.
  • Plyer: Library for accessing features of your hardware such as Accelerometer, Camera,
  • Pyjnius: Access dynamically to Java/Android API from Python, easy!
  • Pyobjus: Access dynamically to Objective-C/iOS API from Python (wip)
  • Python for Android: Toolchain for building and packaging Kivy application to Android APK.
  • Kivy iOS: Toolchain for building and packaging Kivy application to iOS IPA.
  • Audiostream: Library to access directly on the Microphone and Speaker, for iOS and Android.
  • Garden: Explore the User's widgets libraries

Licenses

  • Kivy is licensed under the terms of the MIT, check the LICENSE file.
  • The provided fonts DroidSans.ttf and DroidSansMono.ttf are licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License. The license can be found at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  • The current UI design has been adapted from Moblintouch theme's SVGs, licensed under the terms of the LGPL 2.1.