Python on your phone: Building mobile apps with Kivy
summary
Kivy is a cross‑platform UI framework that runs on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux and uses Cython for speed; examples show a seven lines of Python “hello world”, a scatter layout for multi‑touch, and hardware access via pyjnius/pyobjus or the simpler Plyer API in six lines of Python. Packaging uses Python-for-Android or Buildozer; a single command buildozer android debug deploy run builds an APK, installs and launches it (first build downloads large toolchains). A real app, Chordwise, runs on Android.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 1:18How I got here...
- 3:31Build native apps with Python.
- 4:13A Python library for creating multi-touch applications
- 4:36Open Source MIT License
- 5:19DEMO
- 7:26HELLO WORLD
- 11:48Kv Design Language
- 15:06We've built a Kivy app, and we need to package it for mobile devices.
- 15:53A toolchain for compiling Python apps to run on iOS
- 16:38Tool for creating application packages
- 19:13Python module to access Java classes through the JNI
- 21:00Platform-independent API for common hardware features
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