Python Kivy Tutorial For Beginners

Hello programmers, are you interested in app development using python, then welcome to Python Kivy Tutorial For Beginners. In this tutorial, you will learn what is kivy, where it is used, and how to work with it in python. So let’s gets started.

Contents

1 Python Kivy Tutorial For Beginners – An Introduction To Kivy
- 1.1 What Is Kivy ?
- 1.2 Prerequisites
2 Python Kivy Tutorial For Beginners – Installing Kivy
3 Python Kivy Tutorial For Beginners – Creating First App
4 Also Check

Python Kivy Tutorial For Beginners – An Introduction To Kivy

What Is Kivy ?

Kivy is a graphical user interface Python library that allows you to develop multi platform applications on Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi.
What is better is that it performs better than HTML5 cross platform alternatives.
It can natively use most inputs, protocols and devices including WM_Touch, WM_Pen, Mac OS X Trackpad and Magic Mouse, Mtdev, Linux Kernel HID, TUIO. A multi-touch mouse simulator is included.
The best thing of kivy is that this framework is stable and has a well documented API, plus a programming guide to help you get started.

Prerequisites

If you want to learn kivy then you must have basic knowledge of following :

Python
Concepts of OOPS

Python Kivy Tutorial For Beginners – Installing Kivy

To use kivy, we have to download and install it. In this tutorial i am using windows so i will show you how to install kivy on windows. Anyway if you want to install it on any other OS then visit kivy’s official website. By following this site you can easily install it on your machine. So let’s do it on windows OS.

I assume that you have already installed python and pip on your machine. If not then check them first :

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How to install pip on windows

1. Update the pip and wheel before installing kivy

Now open your command prompt and run following command.


python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools

python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools

While executing it looks like following.

2. Installing Dependencies

Now install dependency by executing following commands.


python -m pip install docutils pygments pypiwin32 kivy_deps.sdl2==0.1.22 kivy_deps.glew==0.1.12

python -m pip install docutils pygments pypiwin32 kivy_deps.sdl2==0.1.22 kivy_deps.glew==0.1.12

Now run the following command.


python -m pip install kivy_deps.gstreamer==0.1.17

python -m pip install kivy_deps.gstreamer==0.1.17

Now install one other dependency. Run the following command.


python -m pip install kivy_deps.angle==0.1.9

python -m pip install kivy_deps.angle==0.1.9

3. Installing kivy

Now install the kivy by executing following command.


Install kivy

Install kivy

4. Installing PyGame

Since PyGame is a dependency of Kivy, we’ll grab that first. PyGame is one of the original packages for creating games in Python. So now run following command.


python -m pip install pygame

python -m pip install pygame

So we have installed all dependencies successfully and now it’s time to create our first app in kivy. So let’s gets started.

Python Kivy Tutorial For Beginners – Creating First App

So are you ready to create your app? yes then let’s do it.

Importing Modules

The first thing we need to do is to install some modules. So write the following code on your editor(Here i am using Sublime Text 3, you can check this How to run python code on Sublime Text 3 ?).


import kivy

# This will give you ability to use all the different fields as well as methods provided by kivy.
from kivy.app import App 

from kivy.uix.label import Label

import kivy

# This will give you ability to use all the different fields as well as methods provided by kivy.

from kivy.app import App

from kivy.uix.label import Label

Creating Class To Represent Our Window

Now we will create a class that will represent our window. So write the following code.


class MyFirstKivyApp(App):
    def build(self):
        return Label(text="Welcome To Kivy World !!!")

class MyFirstKivyApp(App):

def build(self):

return Label(text="Welcome To Kivy World !!!")

MyFirstKivyApp inherits all the fields and methods from Kivy.
build() returns the content we want to place on the window.
In the code above, we have returned a label widget with text “Welcome To Kivy World”.

Running Our App

So now to make run our program we need to write the following code.


if __name__ == "__main__":
   MyFirstKivyApp().run()

if __name__ == "__main__":

MyFirstKivyApp().run()

Complete Code Of My First App

So here is the complete code for the above code snippets. It looks like as below.


import kivy
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.label import Label


class MyFirstKivyApp(App):
    def build(self):
        return Label(text="Welcome To Kivy World !!!")


if __name__ == "__main__":
   MyFirstKivyApp().run()

import kivy

from kivy.app import App

from kivy.uix.label import Label

class MyFirstKivyApp(App):

def build(self):

return Label(text="Welcome To Kivy World !!!")

if __name__ == "__main__":

MyFirstKivyApp().run()

Now run the above code. Are you excited to see your first kivy application, then what are waiting for? let’s see.

Hey congratulations, we have created our first kivy application successfully. Have you enjoyed it? Let me know in comment section.

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Python Kivy Tutorial For Beginners – Getting Started

Python Kivy Tutorial For Beginners – An Introduction To Kivy

What Is Kivy ?

Prerequisites

Python Kivy Tutorial For Beginners – Installing Kivy

1. Update the pip and wheel before installing kivy

2. Installing Dependencies

3. Installing kivy

4. Installing PyGame

Python Kivy Tutorial For Beginners – Creating First App

Importing Modules

Creating Class To Represent Our Window

Running Our App

Complete Code Of My First App

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