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Kivy - Interactive Applications and Games in Python

Kivy - Interactive Applications and Games in Python

By : Roberto Ulloa
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Kivy - Interactive Applications and Games in Python

Kivy - Interactive Applications and Games in Python

3.7 (10)
By: Roberto Ulloa
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Overview of this book

If you are a Python developer who wants to create exciting and dynamic UI/UX applications that are compatible with multiple platforms, then this is the book for you. No prior experience with Kivy is required, although you should be familiar with Python and have a fair understanding of software engineering concepts such as inheritance, classes, and instances.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. GUI Basics – Building an Interface
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1. GUI Basics – Building an Interface
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Basic interface – Hello World!
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Basic widgets – labels and buttons
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Layouts
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Embedding layouts
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PageLayout – swiping pages
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Our project – Comic Creator
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2. Graphics – the Canvas
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2. Graphics – the Canvas
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Understanding the canvas
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Drawing basic shapes
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Adding images, colors, and backgrounds
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Structuring graphic instructions
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Rotating, translating, and scaling the coordinate space
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Comic Creator: PushMatrix and PopMatrix
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3. Widget Events – Binding Actions
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3. Widget Events – Binding Actions
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Attributes, ID, and root
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Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
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Localizing coordinates – adding stickmen
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Binding and unbinding events – sizing limbs and heads
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Binding events in the Kivy language
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Creating your own events – the magical properties
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Kivy and its properties
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4. Improving the User Experience
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4. Improving the User Experience
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ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
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Color control on the canvas – coloring figures
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StencilView – limiting the drawing space
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Scatter – multi-touching to drag, rotate, and scale
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Recording gestures – line, circle, and cross
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Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
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Behaviors – enhancing widget's functionality
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Style – decorating the interface
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Factory – replacing a vertex instruction
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5. Invaders Revenge – an Interactive Multi-touch Game
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5. Invaders Revenge – an Interactive Multi-touch Game
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Invaders Revenge – an animated multi-touch game
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Atlas – An efficient management of images
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Boom – simple sound effects
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Ammo – simple animation
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Invader – transitions for animations
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Dock – automatic binding in the Kivy language
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Fleet – infinite concatenation of animations
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Scheduling events with the clock
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Shooter – multi-touch control
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Invasion – moving the shooter with the keyboard
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Combining animations with '+' and '&'
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6. Kivy Player – a TED Video Streamer
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6. Kivy Player – a TED Video Streamer
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Video – play, pause, and stop
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AsyncImage – creating a cover for the video
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Subtitles – tracking the video progression
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Control bar – adding buttons to control the video
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Slider – including a progression bar
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Animation – hiding a widget
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Kivy inspector – debugging interfaces
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ActionBar – a responsive bar
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LoadDialog – displaying a directory of files
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ScrollView – displaying a list of videos
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Search – query the TED Developer API
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Index

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