Summary

In this chapter, we built a functional Kivy app, ready to be deployed to, for example, Google Play or another app store for public use. This requires a bit of extra work and the process of packaging is platform-specific, but the hardest part—programming—is over.

With the Clock app, we managed to showcase many areas of the Kivy application's development cycle without making the code unnecessarily lengthy or convoluted. Keeping the code short and concise is a major feature of the framework because it allows us to experiment and iterate quickly. Being able to implement new bits of functionality with very little old code getting in the way is invaluable. Kivy surely lives up to its description as a library for rapid application development. ...

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