Kivy Blueprints

Appendix A. The Python Ecosystem

This book doesn't attempt to answer all the questions that you might have had about Kivy, or exemplify every remotely possible approach to writing a Kivy app; it should instead serve as a practical, hands-on introduction to writing various programs with a user interface in Python.

Kivy's major achievement is bridging the gap between a Python toolchain and mobile app development on Android and iOS. Unlike bindings to Qt (PyQt and PySide), Kivy is inherently Pythonic (apart from minor implementation details such as the Window object). These two aspects alone make Kivy a viable option to consider when writing your next user-facing application.

This notwithstanding, I strongly encourage you to explore the vast Python ...