On Wednesday, March 4th, our monthly meetup took place at TechHub Riga. Pizza and cookies were provided courtesy of EGlobal, who have a bunch of pythonistas here in Latvia.
Kivy
Aigars Mahinovs (http://aigarius.com/) showed us how to build Android and iOS application with Kivy.
Kivy is a Open source Python library for rapid development of applications that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps. It runs on Linux, Windows, OS X, Android and iOS. You can run the same code on all supported platforms. It can use natively most inputs, protocols and devices.
Only drawback is lack of native look and feel. But there is some work done in this direction.
Links from presentation
- http://kivy.org/ - Open source Python library for rapid development of applications
- https://github.com/kivy/plyer - Plyer is a platform-independent api to use features commonly found on various platforms, notably mobile ones, in Python.
- https://github.com/kivy/buildozer - Generic Python packager for Android, iOS and Desktop
- https://github.com/aigarius/simplekivy - simple kivy application example by Aigars
- http://kivy.org/docs/examples/gen__demo__camera_puzzle__py.html - This demonstrates using Scatter widgets with a live camera.
- http://pythonprogramming.net/kivy-application-navigation/ - adding better navigation in Kivy
Upcoming events
- March 18th 19:00, Project night at The Mill.
- April 1st 19:00, Generative Testing at TechHub Riga.
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