Kivy – Interactive Applications and Games in Python - Second Edition

Table of Contents

1. Kivy – Interactive Applications and Games in Python Second Edition
   1. Table of Contents
   2. Kivy – Interactive Applications and Games in Python Second Edition
   3. Credits
   4. About the Author
   5. About the Reviewers
   6. www.PacktPub.com
      1. Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
         1. Why subscribe?
         2. Free access for Packt account holders
   7. Preface
      1. What this book covers
      2. What you need for this book
      3. Who this book is for
      4. Conventions
      5. Reader feedback
      6. Customer support
         1. Downloading the example code
         2. Errata
         3. Piracy
         4. Questions
   8. 1. GUI Basics – Building an Interface
      1. Basic interface – Hello World!
      2. Basic widgets – labels and buttons
      3. Layouts
      4. Embedding layouts
      5. PageLayout – swiping pages
      6. Our project – Comic Creator
      7. Summary
   9. 2. Graphics – the Canvas
      1. Understanding the canvas
      2. Drawing basic shapes
      3. Adding images, colors, and backgrounds
      4. Structuring graphic instructions
      5. Rotating, translating, and scaling the coordinate space
      6. Comic Creator: PushMatrix and PopMatrix
      7. Summary
   10. 3. Widget Events – Binding Actions
       1. Attributes, ID, and root
       2. Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
       3. Localizing coordinates – adding stickmen
       4. Binding and unbinding events – sizing limbs and heads
       5. Binding events in the Kivy language
       6. Creating your own events – the magical properties
       7. Kivy and its properties
       8. Summary
   11. 4. Improving the User Experience
       1. ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
       2. Color control on the canvas – coloring figures
       3. StencilView – limiting the drawing space
       4. Scatter – multi-touching to drag, rotate, and scale
       5. Recording gestures – line, circle, and cross
       6. Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
       7. Behaviors – enhancing widget's functionality
       8. Style – decorating the interface
       9. Factory – replacing a vertex instruction
       10. Summary
   12. 5. Invaders Revenge – an Interactive Multi-touch Game
       1. Invaders Revenge – an animated multi-touch game
       2. Atlas – An efficient management of images
       3. Boom – simple sound effects
       4. Ammo – simple animation
       5. Invader – transitions for animations
       6. Dock – automatic binding in the Kivy language
       7. Fleet – infinite concatenation of animations
       8. Scheduling events with the clock
       9. Shooter – multi-touch control
       10. Invasion – moving the shooter with the keyboard
       11. Combining animations with '+' and '&'
       12. Summary
   13. 6. Kivy Player – a TED Video Streamer
       1. Video – play, pause, and stop
       2. AsyncImage – creating a cover for the video
       3. Subtitles – tracking the video progression
       4. Control bar – adding buttons to control the video
       5. Slider – including a progression bar
       6. Animation – hiding a widget
       7. Kivy inspector – debugging interfaces
       8. ActionBar – a responsive bar
       9. LoadDialog – displaying a directory of files
       10. ScrollView – displaying a list of videos
       11. Search – query the TED Developer API
       12. Summary
   14. Index