Installation on Android

Please note that Kivy is a framework. Installing Kivy itself on your phone will do absolutely nothing. Kivy is not an application.

That said, we provide a “launcher” that allows you to push your Kivy application onto your phone and execute it through a simple interface. We’ll provide instructions for packaging your Kivy application in a standalone way in the future.

To install the Kivy launcher, you must:

  1. Go to the Kivy Launcher on the Google Play Store
  2. Click on Install
  3. Select your phone... And you’re done!

If you don’t have Google Play Store on your tablet, check http://kivy.org/#download for downloading the APK manually.

Now, you can put your Kivy applications in the Kivy directory on the SD Card. Refer to Kivy on Android for a more detailed explanation.

Installation of Examples

  1. Download the Kivy demos for Android

  2. Unzip the content, and go to the kivydemo-for-android

  3. Copy all the folders to

    /sdcard/kivy

  4. Run the launcher and select one of Pictures, Showcase, Touchtracer, Cymunk demo...