[Baypiggies] Does anyone know Kivy?

[Bill Janssen]

Glen Jarvis via Baypiggies <baypiggies at python.org> wrote:

> I'm curious if others have installed Kivy.

My conda recipe for installing Kivy is at
https://github.com/janssen/kivy/tree/stable/conda-recipe.  Bit out of
date; the current release is 1.10.0, not 1.9.1; the recommended Cython
for that is 0.23; and on the mac you also need a build dependency of
"pkg-config".  And this pulls against my fork, not the official Kivy
home.

> Has anyone tried to port an app to either an Android or iPhone?

Well, not a port.  I wrote my password keeper directly for Android, but
I wrote and debugged it running against X11 on a Linux machine, then
built it for Android and deployed the APK.  Uses SQLite with full-text
search (using the APSW API, which required a custom python-for-android
"recipe") and a custom-built (in Python) encrytion "filesystem".
Implements Google OAuth using Kivy's async URLRequest function.  So,
reasonably complex.  Also runs on my Mac desktop.

> Has anyone built a desktop app?

Several.

> How does it package - as an installable DMG for OSX for example?  Or,
> is this packaging left to the developer?

There's a subproject which will build a Mac app from your Kivy app.
Then you package that into a DMG as per usual -- there's a script for
that.  Haven't seen a snap packager for it yet.

> I'd be very interested in a talk on the subject if someone is willing to make one...

Perhaps one of the developers is local?

Bill