Description
Innovative user interfaces made easy.
Kivy is an open source, cross-platform Python
framework for the development of applications that make use of innovative,
multi-touch user interfaces.
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, OS X, Linux, Android and iOS. All Kivy
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 Organization.
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README
Kivy
Innovative user interfaces made easy.
Kivy is an open source, cross-platform Python framework for the development of applications that make use of innovative, multi-touch user interfaces. 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, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. All Kivy 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 Organization.
Installation, Documentation and Examples
Extensive installation instructions as well as tutorials and general documentation, including an API reference, can be found at https://kivy.org/docs. A PDF version is also available.
Kivy ships with many examples which 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 : [email protected]
We also have a Discord channel:
- Server : https://chat.kivy.org
- Channel : #support
Contributing
We love pull requests and discussing novel ideas. Check out our contribution guide and feel free to improve Kivy.
The following mailing list and Discord channel are used exclusively for discussions about developing the Kivy framework and its sister projects:
- Dev Group : https://groups.google.com/group/kivy-dev
- Email : [email protected]
Discord channel:
- Server : https://chat.kivy.org
- Channel : #dev
Sister projects
- Buildozer: generic Python packager for Android and iOS.
- Plyer: platform-independent Python wrapper for platform-dependent APIs.
- Pyjnius: dynamic access to the Java/Android API from Python.
- Pyobjus: dynamic access to the Objective-C/iOS API from Python.
- Python for Android: toolchain for building and packaging Python applications for Android.
- Kivy iOS: toolchain for building and packaging Kivy applications for iOS.
- Audiostream: library for direct access to the microphone and speaker.
- KivEnt: entity-based game engine for Kivy.
- Garden: widgets and libraries created and maintained by users.
- Oscpy: a fast and tested python2/3 implementation of OSC.
Licenses
- Kivy is released under the terms of the MIT License. Please refer to the LICENSE file.
- The provided fonts Roboto and Roboto Mono are licensed and distributed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. The DejaVuSans (used for the virtual keyboard) license can be viewed here.
- The current UI design has been adapted from Moblintouch theme's SVGs and is licensed under the terms of the LGPLv2.1.
Contributors
This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. [[Contribute](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)].
Backers
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