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 >= 1.9.1
- 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 -U watchdog pygments docutils jedi gitpython six kivy-garden
or simple run:
pip install -r requirements.txt
To install the FileBrowser, enter a console (on Windows use kivy.bat in the kivy folder):
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 the kivy command instead of python if you are using our portable package.
If you're successful, you'll see something like this:
If you need assistance, you can ask for help on our mailing list:
- User Group : https://groups.google.com/group/kivy-users
- Email : kivy-users@googlegroups.com
We also have an IRC channel:
- Server : irc.freenode.net
- Port : 6667, 6697 (SSL only)
- Channel : #kivy
We love pull requests and discussing novel ideas. Check out our contribution guide and feel free to improve Kivy Designer.
The following mailing list and IRC channel are used exclusively for discussions about developing the Kivy framework and its sister projects:
- Dev Group : https://groups.google.com/group/kivy-dev
- Email : kivy-dev@googlegroups.com
IRC channel:
- Server : irc.freenode.net
- Port : 6667, 6697 (SSL only)
- Channel : #kivy-dev
Kivy Designer is released under the terms of the MIT License. Please refer to the LICENSE file.