Kivy is an open-source Python framework for developing GUI apps that work cross-platform, including desktop, mobile and embedded platforms.
The aim is to allow for quick and easy interaction design and rapid prototyping whilst making your code reusable and deployable: Innovative user interfaces made easy.
Kivy is written in Python and Cython and is built on OpenGL ES 2.0. It supports various input devices and has an extensive (and extensible) widget library. With the same codebase, you can target Windows, macOS, Linux (including Raspberry Pi OS), Android, and iOS. All Kivy widgets are built with multitouch support.
Kivy is MIT licensed, actively developed by a great community and is supported by many projects managed by the Kivy Organization.
Extensive installation instructions as well as tutorials and general documentation, including an API reference, can be found at https://www.kivy.org/docs. A PDF version is also available.
Kivy ships with many examples which can be found in the examples folder.
Are you having trouble using the Kivy framework, or any of its related projects? Is there an error you don’t understand? Are you trying to figure out how to use it? We have volunteers who can help!
The best channels to contact us for support are listed in the latest Contact Us document.
We love pull requests and discussing novel ideas. Check out our latest contribution guide and feel free to improve Kivy.
It gives details of the best places online to discuss the development with the core developers and other enthusiasts.
The Kivy team manager a number of additional projects that support the Kivy eco-system.
- Buildozer: generic Python packager for Android and iOS.
- Plyer: platform-independent Python wrapper for platform-dependent APIs.
- Pyjnius: dynamic access to the Java/Android API from Python.
- Pyobjus: dynamic access to the Objective-C/iOS API from Python.
- Python for Android: toolchain for building and packaging Python applications for Android.
- Kivy iOS: toolchain for building and packaging Kivy applications for iOS.
- Audiostream: library for direct access to the microphone and speaker.
- KivEnt: entity-based game engine for Kivy.
- Garden: widgets and libraries created and maintained by users.
- Oscpy: a fast and tested python2/3 implementation of OSC.
- Kivy is released under the terms of the MIT License. Please refer to the LICENSE file.
- The provided fonts Roboto and Roboto Mono are licensed and distributed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. The DejaVuSans (used for the virtual keyboard) license can be viewed here.
- The current UI design has been adapted from Moblintouch theme's SVGs and is licensed under the terms of the LGPLv2.1.
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