Kivy Cookbook by Hugo Solis

Enhance your talents in constructing multi-touch purposes with Kivy

About This Book

• Create such a lot different apps and how to distribute them with assistance from the Kivy framework
• Explore Kivy API to improve person interfaces and keep an eye on multi-touch events
• Step-by-step recipes that supply deeper knowing of the Kivy 1.9.0 framework
• Build and use your individual occasions, widgets and gestures utilizing gains and instruments in Kivy

Who This e-book Is For

This publication is meant for builders who are looking to use positive aspects of the Kivy framework and enhance multi-touch functions. previous adventure with Kivy isn't required, even if familiarity with Python is expected.

What you'll Learn

• Access widgets outlined within Kv language on your Python code
• Handle Kivy occasions to manage widgets, touches, the mouse, the keyboard, and animations
• Recognize contact shapes and detecting multi-tapping
• Create customized occasions and claim properties
• Organizing your layouts whereas operating with the ActionBar
• Store and retrieve the coordinate area context
• Create your personal shader and render in a framebuffer
• Leverage manufacturing unit items, multi-touch in iOS and multi-touch in Android

In Detail

Kivy is an open-source Python library for swift improvement of functions that utilize cutting edge person interfaces, similar to multi-touch apps. it's a promising Python framework to increase UI and UX apps in a cross-platform setting, below the Python philosophy.

Kivy Cookbook is a realistic publication that would advisor you thru the Kivy framework to boost apps and get your apps prepared for distribution in App shop and Android devices.

You will start up with fitting Kivy and development your interfaces. you'll the best way to paintings the accelerometer and create customized occasions. Then, you'll know the way to take advantage of the fundamentals, buttons, labels and textual content inputs and manage the widget tree. subsequent, it is possible for you to to paintings with manipulating directions, create an atlas and layouts. relocating on, you are going to research packing for home windows and packing for iOS, and use TestDrive.

By the tip of the e-book, you have learnt intimately the appropriate positive aspects and instruments in Kivy and the way to create moveable programs to distribute your apps within the so much used platforms.

Style and approach

This is an easy-to-follow useful advisor full of graspable recipes that hide vital initiatives to be played whereas constructing multi-touch functions with Kivy. all of the code utilized in each one recipe is defined in detail.