For some days I've been sourcing materials in order to learn Kivy from the scratch. I've not found the right book to use. I'm hopping experienced pythoneers will come in with good suggestions to help me out on this Voyage

Brukx:
For some days I've been sourcing materials in order to learn Kivy from the scratch. I've not found the right book to use. I'm hopping experienced pythoneers will come in with good suggestions to help me out on this Voyage

I faced this same challenge. I had to change path and focus on django.
All the same, you have my best wishes.

Brukx:
For some days I've been sourcing materials in order to learn Kivy from the scratch. I've not found the right book to use. I'm hopping experienced pythoneers will come in with good suggestions to help me out on this Voyage

Go to YouTube and search for "TheNewBoston", he has videos on python and the kivy language.
He has no videos on kivy md yet.

Samcent:
I faced this same challenge. I had to change path and focus on django.
All the same, you have my best wishes.

there is an active group now incase you change your mind

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koyla:

Go to YouTube and search for "TheNewBoston", he has videos on python and the kivy language.
He has no videos on kivy md yet.

i used kivymd for ally app

you can join an active group if you want
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swoopiness:


i used kivymd for ally app

you can join an active group if you want
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Thank you.

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Tnx

The community around Kivy is not large. Getting help can be a difficult task.
Thanks for your offer of mentorship. However, I am okay with what I can get from google, youtube and stack overflow.

As for django, I have so far built 3 web applications with it. One of the app is in my domain of public health and the app is in production.
Whenever I am stuck working with django, I read the official documentation,and I find it to be self explanatory.

Your services will definitely be needed. My best wishes.

Brukx:
For some days I've been sourcing materials in order to learn Kivy from the scratch. I've not found the right book to use. I'm hopping experienced pythoneers will come in with good suggestions to help me out on this Voyage

I perfectly understand your situation because I found myself in your shoes too. The official kivy documentation looks so beginner unfriendly and is hard to follow, isn't it?
That's because the documentation isn't organized the right way. Instead of starting from the beginning, do this:

1. Open the official documentation at https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/kivy/latest/kivy.pdf
2. Head over to the tutorial sections and check the Paint tutorial first. It will be easy as long as your Python skills are good
3. When you're done with that, go to the Ping Pong part. You'll find this hard following but still do it.
4. Then go to the crash course section and follow the link to the videos.
5. When you're done, go back to the documentation and start exploring.

To ensure your exploring is efficient, ensure you give yourself a simple project and then check out the documentation for awesome things you can add to your solution. cheers!

Samcent:
I faced this same challenge. I had to change path and focus on django.
All the same, you have my best wishes.

Django is pretty nice and I personally rate it as the tool with the best documentation in the world. You can check out the website I built with Django here https://www.bonychicken.com

LSarcastic:


I perfectly understand your situation because I found myself in your shoes too. The official kivy documentation looks so beginner unfriendly and is hard to follow, isn't it?
That's because the documentation isn't organized the right way. Instead of starting from the beginning, do this:

1. Open the official documentation at https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/kivy/latest/kivy.pdf
2. Head over to the tutorial sections and check the Paint tutorial first. It will be easy as long as your Python skills are good
3. When you're done with that, go to the Ping Pong part. You'll find this hard following but still do it.
4. Then go to the crash course section and follow the link to the videos.
5. When you're done, go back to the documentation and start exploring.

To ensure your exploring is efficient, ensure you give yourself a simple project and then check out the documentation for awesome things you can add to your solution. cheers!

Thanks alot. This is really helpful

LSarcastic:


Django is pretty nice and I personally rate it as the tool with the best documentation in the world. You can check out the website I built with Django here https://www.bonychicken.com

Nice work! Which tools did you use for the frontend?

I agree with you 100% on django documentation.

Good to know you are also good with Kivy. I learnt the developers have stepped up efforts to make it competitive with regards to mobile app development. I also hope they come up with a beginner friendly documentation.

Thanks for your input.

Samcent:


Nice work! Which tools did you use for the frontend?

I agree with you 100% on django documentation.

Good to know you are also good with Kivy. I learnt the developers have stepped up efforts to make it competitive with regards to mobile app development. I also hope they come up with a beginner friendly documentation.

Thanks for your input.

Thanks for the complement. I used plain ol Bootstrap. Then I added a few of my custom JS and CSS to it. The JS I applied was heavy while I only wrote a few lines of CSS to help.

Kivy team is trying. The only problem is, Kivy might never make much impact in the mobile app development path. That's because Python is not still supported out of the box by Android or iOS. In fact whenever you make a Kivy app for Android, you'll have to include the entire Python run time which will increase the size of your app. The community is clamoring for Python support. Even Guido Van Rossum(Python's daddy) mentioned it in a recent conference. Kivy is already on the stage but there are too much obstacles in the way.
Let's hope better for Python and the mobile stage.

Cheers!

@LSarcastic,

If kivy breaks even in mobile app development, the dominance of python will be unchallenged for a very long time.

Thanks for sharing knowledge.

I learnt there was a time on this forum when some 'very good' programmers used to be active. I am not sure exactly what happened but most of them seem to have either deactivate their account or decided to be inactive.

Knowledge sharing and interactions like this can help revive this section of nairaland.

As for Seun, I understand he is more of a business man now than a programmer, but he can help by making more threads like this grace front page.

My regards.

Today is the 6th week after creating this thread. I can say my knowledge of Kivy has improved alot. Thanks to this WhatsApp group I joined where we learnt the concept together

LSarcastic:


Django is pretty nice and I personally rate it as the tool with the best documentation in the world. You can check out the website I built with Django here https://www.bonychicken.com

nice website.

Brukx:
Today is the 6th week after creating this thread. I can say my knowledge of Kivy has improved alot. Thanks to this WhatsApp group I joined where we learnt the concept together

can you add me in the group pls.

Brukx:
Today is the 6th week after creating this thread. I can say my knowledge of Kivy has improved alot. Thanks to this WhatsApp group I joined where we learnt the concept together

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