Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework
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#2I wrote one iOS app using Swift and SwiftUI. Has anyone written a Kivy iOS app and pushed it to the app store, if so, please share experiences.
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#3A) this is most European website I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t tell you exactly why… perhaps it’s the train subconsciously affecting me.
2) this is first time I’ve ever seen mobile included as part of “Cross-Platform”, that’s pretty awesome. We’re living in the future, friends! Tho it also makes me shudder at the thought of the phrase “QT app development”…
III) At this point, why not just use web? What is a “truly cross platform UI framework” other than HTML? I’m currently developing a site that uses TS in the frontend and Python in the back, and that seemed like a nice Unix-y division of labor. What am I missing?
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#5Does this work with JupyterlHub? Would be neat to try with some students currently learning Python with JupyterHub.
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#6A) this is most European website I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t tell you exactly why… perhaps it’s the train subconsciously affecting me. 2) this is first time I’ve ever seen mobile included as part of “Cross-Platform”, that’s pretty awesome. We’re living in the future, friends! Tho it also makes me shudder at the thought of the phrase “QT app development”… III) At this point, why not just use web? What is a “truly cross…
I think a lot of people dislike html/web-based apps, and they are not as responsive in some cases as well. I have seen some mobile browser implementations that explicitly put large delays (hundreds of ms) into their touch handlers for example. You can see a similar delay in a side-by-side comparison video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4CwVN9RRbE
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#7The landing page is weird; it talks more about the funding for the framework than the framework itself. There's only one image showing UI, and the way its styled (cropped, tilted) makes me think its a stock photo, not a screenshot. The stock photo of a train right underneath isn't helping this perception for me.
If you got as lost as me, the Gallery is accessible via a link at the top: https://kivy.org/gallery.html
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#8A) this is most European website I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t tell you exactly why… perhaps it’s the train subconsciously affecting me. 2) this is first time I’ve ever seen mobile included as part of “Cross-Platform”, that’s pretty awesome. We’re living in the future, friends! Tho it also makes me shudder at the thought of the phrase “QT app development”… III) At this point, why not just use web? What is a “truly cross…
> this is most European website I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t tell you exactly why… perhaps it’s the train subconsciously affecting me.
Actually the train on that page is from Japan.
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#9So how is the accessibility story?
No mentions on the site at all. I only found this https://github.com/kivy/kivy/issues/8596 so seems like not yet implemented.
Meaning Kivy is not yet a good choice for user-facing apps. It is so frustrating to see all the new UI frameworks and they fall apart if you just ask about accessibility features that should be absolute standard in 2024.
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#10FWIW JavaFX is still great too BTW. I have a decent sized app that'll run fine with a 50mb heap, and you get native OS installers too. No web support though.