New Kivy Crash Course video released, 13: Using Kivy’s settings panel.
In this video I cover how to store your application settings in a file, how to read them in when necessary, and how to have Kivy semi-automatically construct a widget so the user can modify settings in real …
read moreNew Kivy Crash Course video released, 12: Using Android APIs.
In this video I quickly cover 3 (related) ways to access Android’s APIs straight from Python, making it easy to use hardware features like the accelerometer as well as tasks like sending an email or displaying a notification. It …
read moreTo anyone reading these write-ups of my Kivy Crash Course…shall I keep going? I’ll keep writing up the individual videos if people are finding them useful, but I’d also like to spend more time blogging about other things (including other Kivy features rather than just following the …
read moreThis is the standalone write-up of my third Kivy Crash Course video, linked above. In this entry, I head back to Python to add some more complex and interesting behaviour to our simple program from the first article.
If you want to follow along, you can copy …
In this writeup of my second Kivy Crash Course video, I describe how to use the buildozer tool to compile a Kivy application into a fully functional standalone Android APK. For reference, you can find the original video here.
This particular article may have some overlap/redundancy …
This is the first entry in my Kivy Crash Course, originally a series of short (~10 minutes or less) youtube videos introducing how to create an app using the kivy graphical framework, how to use different Kivy features, and other topics like how to build for android …