Learn how to layout your widgets in Kivy, a mobile GUI framework for Python. Kivy is a cross-platform GUI framework that also works on iOS and Android. The examples in this video are based on the code from Kivy 101: How to Use BoxLayouts
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The PyDev of the Week this week is Ben Rousch (@brousch). He is a contributor to the Kivy project. You should check out his blog here. You can also see Mr. Rousch give a talk about Kivy on Youtube. Let’s find out more about him!
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Kivy is a neat package that allows Python developers to create user interfaces on mobile devices. You can also deploy the applications to desktops too. This is the second book I’ve seen put out on the subject. The first book, Kivy – Interactive Applications in Python by Roberto Ulloa came out last year from Packt
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Kivy is an open source Python library for rapid development of applications that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps. The Kivy organization is organizing its second application development contest.! This is a great chance for new and experienced users to show off their skills and compete for prizes. Entries will be
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I recently received a copy of Kivy: Interactive Applications in Python by Roberto Ulloa. This is currently the only book about Kivy. Kivy is a cross-platform GUI toolkit that will run on Linux, Windows, and OS X as well as Android and iOS. In fact, the people behind Kivy emphasize that this is aimed primarily
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Recently I’ve started learning about Kivy, a Python Natural User Interface (NUI) toolkit. As I understand it, Kivy is kind of a spiritual successor to pyMT, which you can read more about here. In this article, we will be learning how Kivy handles layout management. While you can position widgets using x/y coordinates, in every
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I like to use Wingware’s IDE for coding in Python. I am working through some sample applications with Kivy, a cross-platform Python GUI framework that can also create UIs for mobile. Anyway, getting Kivy set up in Wing is slightly confusing, so here’s a crash course: Download Kivy Unzip Kivy somewhere. In my case, I
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