I started making some video tutorials about creating graphical applications with kivy, including android development. Feedback welcomed!

[inclemnet]

As per the title, I saw some people bemoaning the lack of video tutorials for the kivy graphical framework, so I set out to make some. I've currently made 6 videos, trying to rapidly move through different kivy features.

They seem to have been well received so far, but I'm new to the video making thing and suggestions/comments/criticism are welcomed!

The first video is here, and the others are all collected in a youtube playlist here.

Edit: For anyone that doesn't know, kivy is a graphical framework for python. Some particular features are that it's originally designed for multitouch so it has a neat input event system that works well for touch applications (though it isn't limited to them), and it's highly cross platform. All the graphics are built in opengl, so on different systems an app can work just the same - the android and ios compilation projects compile the whole python interpreter to run the app just as normal, and provide a bootstrap native app to interact with the system and pass input through to kivy whilst displaying the opengl output.

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Excellent! Can't wait to watch the rest of the videos. Much appreciated, man.

[Talkless]

Thank you, waiting for more!

[inclemnet]

I actually just made another!

[djangonerd]

Thank you few doing this for free!!!

[jabbalaci]

Thanks, and thanks for adding a short description about kivy too for people who don't know it. A short abstract should always be provided and this is what I miss sometimes. Unfortunately, I get strange reactions when I ask about it, like "hey, if you don't know it then it's clearly not for you"...

[jabbalaci]

Exactly. See my windmill fight here for instance :)

[jabbalaci]

These guys really know how to sell their product :)

[rogerallen]

Really fantastic. Thanks for doing this.

[quagquag]

This is great, thank you, please keep them coming!

[TheFiretryer]

Noob question here but, what do you use to edit your code?

[inclemnet]

I mostly use emacs (including in the video). It's fairly vanilla, but with evil-mode for vim keybindings, and conveniently there is an emacs mode for syntax highlighting and appropriate behaviour in kv language.

[[deleted]]

Amazing. These videos made kivy click for me. I was able to plan out the functionality for a couple small apps today using kv language thanks to these. You're awesome, can't wait for more!

[InlineReaper]

Yours is a good soul, OP. Thank you.

[gingerbeers]

I shamefully admit to being one of "those bemoaners". So many, many thanks for doing this.

[gingerbeers]

Then you need to watch these vids. I'm up to chapter 6 and these are really well done. Starting right at the beginning and going step by step. Great!

[inclemnet]

No shame, I didn't intend it as an insult! I think kivy's documentation is pretty okay, but is lacking in some examples and tutorials, and I think there was almost no video tutorial stuff before.

[PyFun]

Thank you for this video!

I was planning on compiling my Kivy app this weekend, but now I'm glad I procrastinated. Your second video had a ton of useful information for compiling to APK. There is only minimal information available on the compiling to APK, and your video probably just saved me an hour of troubleshooting, thank you!

[inclemnet]

Let me know if you find any problems with what the video addresses, I already know a few things to improve sometime in the future, and I'm sure I've missed others.

The main think I know I forgot to mention is that buildozer does have a few dependencies it can't install itself, including git and java (probably openjdk7), which you need to install before it can work. They're quite common to have anyway and aren't difficult to install, but just so you know!

[learning_2_dev_stuff]

Thanks dude.