Trying out Kivy

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/13/2015 11:33 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I tried out the ‘standard’ Kivy application:
> ============================================================
> from kivy.app import App
> from kivy.uix.button import Button
>
> class TestApp(App):
>      def build(self):
>          return Button(text='Hello World')
>
> TestApp().run()
> ============================================================
>
> When using python2 I see some exceptions and OSErrors, but it runs.
>
> When using python3 I get:
>      [CRITICAL          ] [Text        ] Unable to find any valuable Text provider at all!
>      pygame - ImportError: No module named 'pygame'
>        File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/core/__init__.py", line 57, in core_select_lib
>          fromlist=[modulename], level=0)
>        File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/core/text/text_pygame.py", line 12, in <module>
>          import pygame
>
>      pil - ImportError: No module named 'PIL'
>        File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/core/__init__.py", line 57, in core_select_lib
>          fromlist=[modulename], level=0)
>        File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/core/text/text_pil.py", line 8, in <module>
>          from PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw
>
>      [CRITICAL          ] [App         ] Unable to get a Text provider, abort.
>
> I tried to install pygame and PIL with pip3, but that did not find

Use pillow rather than PIL.  API is same.  Don't know about rest of your 
question.

> anything. Is there another way to install those dependencies?
>
> But more importantly: can I develop with python3 for the Android?
> Because the primary reason to use Kivy is to develop applications for Android.
>


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Terry Jan Reedy