Kivy

Innovative User Interfaces Made Easy.

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

Kivy is written in Python and Cython, based on OpenGL ES 2, supports various input devices and has an extensive widget 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 and is supported by many 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:

User Group : https://groups.google.com/group/kivy-users
Email : kivy-users@googlegroups.com

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

Server : irc.freenode.net
Port : 6667, 6697 (SSL only)
Channel : #kivy

Contribution

We love pull requests and discussing novel ideas. Check out our contribution guide (http://kivy.org/docs/contribute.html) and feel free to improve Kivy.

The following mailing list and IRC channel is used exclusively for discussions about developing the Kivy framework and its sister projects:

Dev Group : https://groups.google.com/group/kivy-dev
Email : kivy-dev@googlegroups.com

IRC channel (expect responses mostly in the day hours of CET):

Server : irc.freenode.net
Port : 6667, 6697 (SSL only)
Channel : #kivy-dev

Other 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 the Accelerometer, Camera etc.
Pyjnius: Dynamic access to the Java/Android API from Python? Easy!
Pyobjus: Dynamic access to the Objective-C/iOS API from Python (wip).
Python for Android: Toolchain for building and packaging Kivy applications into Android APK's.
Kivy iOS: Toolchain for building and packaging Kivy applications into iOS IPA's.
Audiostream: Library for direct access to the Microphone and Speaker (for iOS and Android).
Garden: Explore User's widgets and libraries

Licenses