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Guides about kivy.

Kivy notes

These notes have two goals. The first is to provide documentation about odds and ends of Kivy but the official documentation does not describe in a satisfactory manner. The second is to describe tips and tricks that I have found useful in my own experience with Kivy. I hope this guide will prove to be useful to others.

Note that is a resource for intermediate Kivy developers. If you are new to Kivy, then I recommend consulting the following resources before reading ahead:

• The Kivy crash course, a brief series of videos which are a fantastic way to get your feet wet with the framework.
• The official Kivy programming guide written by the Kivy developers themselves.
• The following sections of the official Kivy API documentation:
  • The Kivy language documention.
  • The Kivy properties documentation.
  • The coordinate system section from the RelativeLayout documentation. This is the only official description of Kivy's coordinate systems.
  • The Kivy clock documentation.

To be written:

• size_hint_min and size_hint_max
• The canvas tree
• Things I wish I knew about canvases when I first started using Kivy
• When to use RelativeLayouts (and why it's usually bad practice)
• Sharing data between widgets
• style.kv
• RecycleView
• How the event loop works