Kivy Cookbook: Enhance your skills in developing multitouch applications with Kivy Hugo Solis Author

Create most diverse apps and learn how to distribute them with the help of the Kivy frameworkExplore Kivy API to develop user interfaces and control multi-touch eventsStep-by-step recipes that provide deeper understanding of the Kivy 1.9.0 frameworkBuild and use your own events, widgets and gestures using features and tools in KivyThis book is intended for developers who want to use features of the Kivy framework and develop multitouch applications. Prior experience with Kivy is not required although familiarity with Python is expected.Access widgets defined inside the Kv language in your Python codeHandle Kivy events to control widgets, touches, the mouse, the keyboard, and animationsRecognize touch shapes and detect multitappingOrganize your layouts while working with the action barStore and retrieve the coordinate space contextCreate your own shader and render in a FramebufferLeverage factory objects, multitouch in iOS, and multitouch in AndroidKivy is an open source Python library for the rapid development of applications that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multitouch apps, and develops UI and UX apps in a cross-platform environment. You will start off by installing Kivy and building your interfaces. You will learn how to work the accelerometer and create custom events. Then, you will use the basics, buttons, labels, and text inputs and manipulate the widget tree. Next, you will work with manipulating instructions, create Atlas and layouts, and learn packaging for Windows and iOS. By the end of this book, you will have learned the features and tools in Kivy and will be able to create portable packages to distribute your apps on the most popular platforms.