buildozer fails for OSX about kivy-sdk-packager

[kcrossen]

Let me start by saying you have a very fine GUI SDK, a lightweight Qt (which to me is the platinum standard). I'd experimented w/ JavaFX which turned out to be a dead end for many reasons.

By trying various workarounds, most documented in other issues, I have managed to get my app packaged for OSX. I'd be happy to lay out my process for you. It is admittedly quite crude compared to your documented process, but it has the virtue of working under challenging conditions. The central breakthrough was figuring out how to pip the dependencies after MakeSymlinks had failed, and all of the versions I tried failed from the dmg. In short,

$ kivy
-bash: kivy: command not found

then your instructions didn't apply, couldn't set up drag/drop script execute for example.

Second breakthrough is that your packaging scripts refer to:

/Applications/Kivy.app

while the dmg installs:

/Applications/Kivy2.app

And there were some others of a similar nature, documented in other issues. It looked as though nobody had tested the instructions lately, especially what would happen if one of the steps failed.

The app sources can be found here:
https://github.com/kcrossen/CloudWatch_Remote_Monitor

I have documented the process of AWS identity setup and I'll probably document my crude, brute force, installation and packaging instructions. You have a good tool and more people will use it at lower frustration levels.