buildozer VS kivy

Compare buildozer vs kivy and see what are their differences.

buildozer

Generic Python packager for Android and iOS (by kivy)

kivy

Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS (by Dirk-Sandberg)
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buildozer kivy
14 2
1,627 8
1.1% -
7.5 10.0
13 days ago over 4 years ago
Python
MIT License MIT License
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buildozer

Posts with mentions or reviews of buildozer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-15.
  • Kivy Buildozer not working (noob)
    2 projects | /r/kivy | 15 May 2023
    git clone https://github.com/kivy/buildozer.git
  • How do you read from device memory in Kivy?
    4 projects | /r/kivy | 6 Jan 2023
  • Have anyone used sqlalchemy and alembic in kivy for android app?
    4 projects | /r/kivy | 14 Dec 2022
    I ran a code just now with a print function which lists files (recursively) which is a heck lot. All py files are replaced by pyc for everything. Even my main.py is converted to pyc and other code I wrote. I think it is required to convert to pyc. Since buildozer is the one compile I dont think there is an option to skip the optimization (README.md).
  • NLTK IN BUILDOZER
    2 projects | /r/kivy | 19 Nov 2022
    All right, got it. And shall I just use the code mentioned in https://github.com/kivy/buildozer/issues/1148 or should I make any changes?
    2 projects | /r/kivy | 19 Nov 2022
    Have you seen the issue about it here? https://github.com/kivy/buildozer/issues/1148 .. there is a suggested workaround using a zip file, but there may be better other ways to deal with it
  • Buildozer won't build apk/aab file
    4 projects | /r/kivy | 30 Jan 2022
    Buildozer GitHub Repo
    4 projects | /r/kivy | 30 Jan 2022
    git clone https://github.com/kivy/buildozer.git
    4 projects | /r/kivy | 30 Jan 2022
    There is an open issue with a solution: https://github.com/kivy/buildozer/issues/1401
  • Build iOS-like Apps in Python
    6 projects | /r/Python | 31 Mar 2021
    I believe buildozer does not work on Windows, but you can likely get around it with something like WSL or a virtual machine
    6 projects | /r/Python | 31 Mar 2021
    You will need to use tools like buildozer to compile your Python code into executable applications, but all of the code required is written completely in Python. Instructions for compiling Kivy are found here.

kivy

Posts with mentions or reviews of kivy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-01.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing buildozer and kivy you can also consider the following projects:

python-for-android - Turn your Python application into an Android APK

kivy-ios - Toolchain for compiling Python / Kivy / other libraries for iOS

kivy - Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS

Flutter - Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond

sdk - The Dart SDK, including the VM, dart2js, core libraries, and more.

kivy-cupertino - iOS-style widgets for Kivy

androidstorage4kivy - Classes to access Android shared storage from Kivy

SW-DLT - SW-DLT: a front end iOS Shortcut for yt-dlp & gallery-dl. Repository for code, feature requests and bug reports.

SQLAlchemy - The Database Toolkit for Python

Android-for-Python-Users - An unofficial Buildozer users' guide