Kivy: Develop multi-touch enabled Python apps
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HN comment orderI had the chance to use Kivy to build a GUI for my Master's thesis. I was always on the irc channel and yes the community is small but I always got the help I needed from the creators as well. It's easy to use once you get the grasp of it. I used it as a proof of concept but was pretty happy with the result. That was 9 months ago so I'm not up to date with the…
It's quite fascinating to read about mobile crossplatform projects beyond React Native/Flutter/Xamarin and the old Cordova/PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium efforts. There's a surprising amount of them out there- Kivy isn't even the only one in Python, there's also Beeware (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaPzlIJ57dk) and PyMob. The question is, who actually uses these projects? The people developing them? Hobbyists? Language diehards? If you're a large company that just needs LOB apps, one would assume one of…
I've tried it, but the resulted built size is huge. How could a Hello World application (built for android) took 15 minutes to build, and about 60MB in size ?? Why not those measurement been told in the main site to tell other to try and use ?
Why on earth do they shy away from saying the word "Python" anywhere? Seems pretty relevant, considering it's a Python library. It's a pretty important fact for potential users, and one they would probably want to know sooner rather than later. Personally, any sense of excitement and discovery I had upon visiting the front page was killed pretty flat when I spent a couple of minutes skimming the front page for what it's a library for, visiting 'About' and 'Docs'…
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