WARNING:: This software was part of GSOC 2013, and is searching for a maintainer.
Kivy Designer is Kivy's tool for designing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) from Kivy Widgets. You can compose and customize widgets, and test them. It is completely written in Python using Kivy.
- Kivy 1.8+
- The following Python modules (available via pip)
- The FileBrowser widget from the Kivy garden
To install the prerequisites, enter a console (on windows use kivy.bat in the kivy folder):
pip install watchdog
pip install pygments
pip install docutils
To install the FileBrowser, enter a console (on windows use kivy.bat in the kivy folder):
pip install kivy-garden
garden install filebrowser
With the prerequisites installed, you can use the designer:
git clone http://github.com/kivy/kivy-designer/
cd kivy-designer
python main.py
without git download, extract and execute main.py: https://github.com/kivy/kivy-designer/archive/master.zip
On OS X you might need to use kivy command instead of Python if you are using our portable package.
If you're successful, you'll see something like this:
