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KivyMD
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KivyMD

KivyMD is a collection of Material Design compliant widgets for use with Kivy, a framework for cross-platform, touch-enabled graphical applications. https://youtube.com/c/KivyMD https://twitter.com/KivyMD https://habr.com/ru/users/kivymd https://stackoverflow.com/tags/kivymd

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KivyMD is a collection of Material Design compliant widgets for use with Kivy, a framework for cross-platform, touch-enabled graphical applications. https://youtube.com/c/KivyMD https://twitter.com/KivyMD https://habr.com/ru/users/kivymd https://stackoverflow.com/tags/kivymd

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Observed mentions: 2016-07-20 08:32:09 UTC to 2024-07-06 19:28:53 UTC.

012016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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There is a galaxy of projects around Kivy, such as https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android to compile python project for Android (with Kivy or not) or https://plyer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ for cross plateform API (notifications, hardware, filechooser, etc). For UI there is https://github.com/kivymd/KivyMD for Material design on top of Kivy. And the team is nice (I've met some of them at PyCon or FOSDEM). The framework is pleasant to use, and there is a descriptive language, kv, which is really great. Cross compiling may be painful though (I did it for Android) and the app loading time is a bit long, but it's working. Some things may be missing in comparison to big frameworks such as Qt, there is no WebView for instance, and accessibility is unfortunately not as good. It's overall a very good project and it's a pity that it's not more
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In Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework
Not sure about Tkinter for Android[0], but for Python for Android take a look on Kivy/Py4A.[1,2] As for Py/Qt for Android there is QPython.[3] But, sadly, there are NO good Android alternative to "PyS60" (Python for Symbian S60).[4] [0] https://learning-python.com/using-tkinter-programs-on-androi... [1] https://github.com/kivy/kivy [2] https://github.com/kivymd/KivyMD [3] https://github.com/qpython-android/qpython3 [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyS60
In AndroWish – run desktop Tcl/Tk programs almost unaltered on the Android Platform
I think it's still generally the case that Kivy apps tend to use the default (clunky) theme or something more custom, but there has recently been some user activity around alternatives, e.g. a set material design themed widgets (https://github.com/kivymd/KivyMD). I'm not sure if any apps using this have been published on the Play store. We've been discussing how to include more unified themeing capabilities in Kivy itself, ideally as a big new feature in the upcoming 2.0 release. Edit: I wrote a post at http://inclem.net/2016/01/15/kivy/kivy_android_app_showcase/ about some of the best published Kivy apps including themeing considerations, although they don't aim for a standard Android UI either. I see in your edit you've already seen this though.
In Kivy: Develop multi-touch enabled Python apps

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