Kivy Blueprints

Chapter 1. Building a Clock App

This book will walk you through the creation of nine little Kivy programs, each resembling a real-world use case for the Kivy framework. On many occasions, the framework will be utilized together with other Python modules fitting for the task at hand. We will see that Kivy provides a great deal of flexibility, allowing us to solve vastly different problems in a clean, concise manner.

Let's start small. In this chapter, we will build a simple Clock app, similar in concept to the built-in application found in both iOS and Android. In the first part of the chapter, we will create a non-interactive digital clock display and style it, giving our program an Android-ish flat look. We will also briefly discuss the event-driven ...