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You're reading from Kivy Cookbook Enhance your skills in developing multi-touch applications with Kivy

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783987382

Length 246 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Kivy

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (2):

Hugo Solis

Solis

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Kivy Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Kivy and the Kv Language FREE CHAPTER

Introduction
Installing Kivy
Building your interfaces
Declaring properties within a class
Relating Python code and the Kv language
Referencing widgets
Accessing widgets defined inside the Kv language in your Python code
Reusing styles in multiple widgets
Designing with the Kv language
Running your code
Using Kivy garden

2. Input, Motion, and Touch

Introduction
Using the mouse
Evolving to the touchscreen
Working with the accelerometer
Using the gyroscope
The differences between the touch and motion events
Recognizing touch shapes
Detecting multitapping
Grabbing touch events
Recording gestures

3. Events

Introduction
Scheduling a one-time event
Scheduling a repetitive event
Triggering events
Defining widget events
Creating custom events
Attaching callbacks
Declaring a property
Compounding properties

4. Widgets

Introduction
Using the basics: buttons, labels, and text inputs
Manipulating the widget tree
Traversing the tree
Using swappable widgets
Organizing with layouts
Using FloatLayout
Using BoxLayout
Using GridLayout
Using StackLayout
Using RelativeLayout
Using AnchorLayout
Working with ActionBar

5. Graphics – Canvas and Instructions

Introduction
Separating with the screen manager
Using drawing instructions
Using context instructions
Working with manipulating instructions
Rotating, translating, and scaling the canvas
Modifying with multitouching
Storing and retrieving the coordinate space context
Introducing animations

6. Advanced Graphics – Shaders and Rendering

Introduction
Using Carousel
Creating and using Atlas
Creating layouts
Editing shaders
Creating widgets
Creating your own shader
Rendering in a Framebuffer
Optimizing graphics

7. The API in Detail

Introduction
Getting to know the API
Using the asynchronous data loader
Logging objects
Parsing
Applying utils
Leveraging the factory object
Working with audio
Working with video
Working with a camera
Using spelling
Adding effects
Advanced text manipulation

8. Packaging our Apps for PC

Introduction
Packaging for Windows
Including multimedia for Windows
Running apps in Windows
Packaging for Mac OS
Including multimedia for Mac OS
Running apps in Mac OS
Packaging for Linux
Including multimedia for Linux
Running apps in Linux

9. Kivy for Mobile Devices

Introduction
Packaging for iOS
Resizing the screen into iOS
Leveraging mobile features in iOS
Preparing for the App Store
Packaging for Android
Resizing the screen into Android
Leveraging mobile features in Android

Index

Chapter 6. Advanced Graphics – Shaders and Rendering

In this chapter, we will cover:

Using Carousel
Creating and using Atlas
Creating layouts
Editing shaders
Creating widgets
Creating your own shader
Rendering in a Framebuffer
Optimizing graphics

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