Kivy 2.3.1

An open-source Python framework for developing GUI apps that work cross-platform, including desktop, mobile and embedded platforms.

Stars: 18833, Watchers: 18833, Forks: 3162, Open Issues: 869

The kivy/kivy repo was created 15 years ago and the last code push was 3 hours ago.
The project is extremely popular with a mindblowing 18833 github stars!

How to Install kivy

You can install kivy using pip

pip install kivy

or add it to a project with poetry

poetry add kivy

Package Details

Author

Kivy Team and other contributors

License

MIT

Homepage

http://kivy.org

PyPi:

https://pypi.org/project/Kivy/

Documentation:

https://kivy.org/doc/stable/

GitHub Repo:

https://github.com/kivy/kivy

Classifiers

• Artistic Software
• Games/Entertainment
• Multimedia/Graphics/3D Rendering
• Multimedia/Graphics/Capture/Digital Camera
• Multimedia/Graphics/Presentation
• Multimedia/Graphics/Viewers
• Multimedia/Sound/Audio/Players/MP3
• Multimedia/Video/Display
• Scientific/Engineering/Human Machine Interfaces
• Scientific/Engineering/Visualization
• Software Development/Libraries/Application Frameworks
• Software Development/User Interfaces

Related Packages

Errors

A list of common kivy errors.

Code Examples

Here are some kivy code examples and snippets.

GitHub Issues

The kivy package has 869 open issues on GitHub

• update user_data_dir, create user_cache_dir, Move Kivy configuration to app-specific directories for desktop OS,
• Fix pytest 9 compatibility
• Update dependency setuptools to ~=80.10.1
• Incomplete documentation showing up on website under master
• Re-integrate hover package into Kivy
• Update dependency build to ~=1.4.0
• Update GitHub Artifact Actions (major)
• Update actions/cache action to v5
• Add support for Python 3.14
• Support provider selection on a per-instance basis for image, text and audio_output providers
• Update softprops/action-gh-release action to v2.5.0
• Update dependency sphinx to v9
• Update actions/checkout action to v6
• Update dependency cibuildwheel to ~=3.3.1
• Mobile wheels

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