Plyer is a platform-independent api to use features commonly found on various platforms, notably mobile ones, in Python.
Plyer tries not to reinvent the wheel, and will call for external libraries to implement the api in the easiest way, depending on the current platform.
- on python-for-android, pyjnius is used
- on kivy-ios, pyobjus is used
- on windows/mac/linux, commonly found libraries and programs will be used
| Platform | Android | iOS | Windows | OS X | Linux |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerometer | X | X | X | X | |
| Call | X | X | |||
| Camera (taking picture) | X | X | |||
| GPS | X | X | |||
| Notifications | X | X | X | X | |
| Text to speech | X | X | X | X | X |
| Email (open mail client) | X | X | X | X | X |
| Vibrator | X | X | |||
| Sms (send messages) | X | X | |||
| Compass | X | X | |||
| Unique ID | X | X | X | X | X |
| Gyroscope | X | X | |||
| Battery | X | X | X | X | X |
| Native file chooser | X | X | X | ||
| Orientation | X | ||||
| Audio recording | X | ||||
| Flash | X | X | |||
| Wifi | X | X | X |
If you need assistance, you can ask for help on our mailing list:
- User Group : https://groups.google.com/group/kivy-users
- Email : kivy-users@googlegroups.com
We also have an IRC channel:
- Server : irc.freenode.net
- Port : 6667, 6697 (SSL only)
- Channel : #kivy
We love pull requests and discussing novel ideas. Check out our contribution guide and feel free to improve Plyer.
The following mailing list and IRC channel are used exclusively for discussions about developing the Kivy framework and its sister projects:
- Dev Group : https://groups.google.com/group/kivy-dev
- Email : kivy-dev@googlegroups.com
IRC channel:
- Server : irc.freenode.net
- Port : 6667, 6697 (SSL only)
- Channel : #kivy-dev
Plyer is released under the terms of the MIT License. Please refer to the LICENSE file.