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Installation, Documentation and Examples

Extensive installation instructions as well as tutorials and general documentation, including an API reference, can be found at https://kivy.org/docs. A PDF version is also available.

Kivy ships with many examples which can be found in the examples folder.

Getting started

The Kivy Website: For the official documentation, latest downloads and user guides.
Talks and Tutorials: Introductory videos and learning material.
Setting up Kivy with various popular IDE's: Setting up your Kivy development environment
Kivy Docs: The official documentation

Code

Snippets: Collection of useful code snippets for common tasks.
Kivy Blogs and Blog Posts: Blog posts about Kivy by Kivy users from around the world
Profiling your Kivy application: Learn to optimize and tweak your Kivy app
The Kivy Garden: A collection of Kivy widgets from the community
Kivy projects: All Kivy related projects

Gaming

KivEnt: an Entity Based Game Engine for Kivy by Kovak
Tiled Maps & Tile Based Movement: Get up and running with a simple Tiled map.

Mobiles

Plyer: a platform-independent api to use features commonly found on various platforms, notably mobile ones
Pyjnius: a Python module to access Java class as Python class, using JNI.
Python for Android: Access Android specific functionality
Pyobjus: a Python module to access Objective-C class as Python class, using Objective-C runtime reflection
Google Analytics and Monitoring: Kivy recipe for Google analytics, play services and bug reporting.
Google Play Recipes: An example of a Google Play Services client.

Getting help

At Kivy, we love code and coders so we want to help you. Feel free to ask questions, make comments or join us for a chat. All we ask is that you be nice and follow our Community Guidelines.

The Kivy Users Forum: Questions and answers for everyone
The Kivy Developers Forum: For devs wanting to discuss the Kivy framework development
IRC: Join us at #Kivy on irc.freenode.net (IRC Guidelines)
The Kivy Contact Us Page links to more venues, including an official Discord chat

Miscellaneous

List of Kivy Projects: Projects that were created using Kivy
Theming Kivy - Various approaches and guides to theming your Kivy app.
Kivy Artwork - A small collection of Kivy Logo's and wallpapers.
Kivy Technical FAQ - A place to document Kivy tips, tricks, hacks, etc., in FAQ format.
Kv language preprocessing: Enhancing kvlang via pyexpander.

Development

This section contains internal notes for the Kivy devs.

Hardware Compatibility List and known issues

This section lists hardware with known issues with kivy.

Lastly

The information here is not exhaustive but provides a brief overview of the Kivy landscape. If you know of any other good resources that should be added, please let us know! Oh, and enjoy Kivy!