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Kivy is usefull for Android app development or not?
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Kivy - Open source Python library for rapid development of applications
that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps.
Cross platform
Kivy runs on Linux, Windows, OS X, Android, iOS, and Raspberry Pi. You can run the same code on all supported platforms.
It can natively use most inputs, protocols and devices including WM_Touch, WM_Pen, Mac OS X Trackpad and Magic Mouse, Mtdev, Linux Kernel HID, TUIO. A multi-touch mouse simulator is included.
Business Friendly
Kivy is 100% free to use, under an MIT license (starting from 1.7.2) and LGPL 3 for the previous versions. The toolkit is professionally developed, backed and used. You can use it in a commercial product.
The framework is stable and has a well documented API, plus a programming guide
https://kivy.org/#home
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For write light apps it can be usefuls but if your goal is develop a medium-large project on android, go to Java/Kotlin because python add more weight to code (interpreter) and you cannot access to full power of android API... I time ago writed a simple web scraper with GUI (usin kivy) developed directly on device and it runned good but some limitation applied
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