Kivy Cookbook

Building your interfaces

Now we are going to create an interface, a very simple one, providing some basics in the developing of Kivy interfaces.

Getting ready

We are going to start to develop our first application with Kivy, and we need an editor for coding; you can use your favorite for Python without any problem. Here, we are using gedit, just because it comes with almost all GNU/Linux distros.

How to do it…

These steps will generate our first Kivy interface:

1. Open a new file in gedit and save it as e1.py.
2. Import the Kivy framework.
3. Subclass the App class.
4. Implement its build() method, so it returns a widget instance (the root of your widget tree).
5. Instantiate this class and call its run() method.

The code for this is as follows:

import kivy kivy.require('1.9.0') ...