Mobile App with Kivy and Python? Mmm… Not now

Posted on Thu, 25 Oct 2018 in Python • Tagged with python, kivy, mobile

There are several GUI frameworks for Python. Most of them are for desktop applications. Kivy is an exception. Using it you can build project for mobile platforms. Unfortunately, it is not production ready. You have to juggle versions of libraries to make it works. So even having a t-shirt that says print("Python is my favorite language") I have to accept that Python is not for mobile development.


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Kivy Project. Part 1. Setting up environment

Posted on Wed, 01 Jun 2016 in Python • Tagged with kivy, gui, python

Kivy is an interesting project that allows you build GUI applications for different platform including iOS and Android. If you believe the rumors... I decided to check out is Kivy suits to build for small python GUI app for 5 major platforms: Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, iOS, and Android. In this series I'll try to build a small app for learning foreign language vocabulary and deploy it on all these platforms.


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