Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework

1. kivy

   1 174 18,227 8.5 Python

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

   

   So how is the accessibility story?

   Now mentions on the site at all. I only found this https://github.com/kivy/kivy/issues/8596 so seems like not yet implemented.

   Meaning Kivy is not yet a good choice for user-facing apps. It is so frustrating to see all the new UI frameworks and they fall apart if you just ask about accessibility features that should be absolute standard in 2024.

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3. python-for-android

   2 56 8,539 8.3 Python

   Turn your Python application into an Android APK

   

   There is a galaxy of projects around Kivy, such as https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android to compile python project for Android (with Kivy or not) or https://plyer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ for cross plateform API (notifications, hardware, filechooser, etc).

   For UI there is https://github.com/kivymd/KivyMD for Material design on top of Kivy.

   And the team is nice (I've met some of them at PyCon or FOSDEM).

   The framework is pleasant to use, and there is a descriptive language, kv, which is really great.

   Cross compiling may be painful though (I did it for Android) and the app loading time is a bit long, but it's working.

   Some things may be missing in comparison to big frameworks such as Qt, there is no WebView for instance, and accessibility is unfortunately not as good.

   It's overall a very good project and it's a pity that it's not more known and used.

4. KivyMD

   3 45 2,323 6.6 Python

   KivyMD is a collection of Material Design compliant widgets for use with Kivy, a framework for cross-platform, touch-enabled graphical applications. https://youtube.com/c/KivyMD https://twitter.com/KivyMD https://habr.com/ru/users/kivymd https://stackoverflow.com/tags/kivymd

   

   There is a galaxy of projects around Kivy, such as https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android to compile python project for Android (with Kivy or not) or https://plyer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ for cross plateform API (notifications, hardware, filechooser, etc).

   For UI there is https://github.com/kivymd/KivyMD for Material design on top of Kivy.

   And the team is nice (I've met some of them at PyCon or FOSDEM).

   The framework is pleasant to use, and there is a descriptive language, kv, which is really great.

   Cross compiling may be painful though (I did it for Android) and the app loading time is a bit long, but it's working.

   Some things may be missing in comparison to big frameworks such as Qt, there is no WebView for instance, and accessibility is unfortunately not as good.

   It's overall a very good project and it's a pity that it's not more known and used.

5. flet

   4 69 13,059 9.4 Python

   Flet enables developers to easily build realtime web, mobile and desktop apps in Python. No frontend experience required.

   

   One cross platform Python framework I found interesting is flet https://flet.dev/

   It's powered by Flutter behind the scenes and familiar enough so that you can translate most things from Flutter/Dart tutorials to Flet.

6. accesskit

   5 31 1,184 8.8 Rust

   Accessibility infrastructure for UI toolkits

   

7. accessibility-insights-web

   6 14 853 8.0 TypeScript

   Accessibility Insights for Web

   

   Not quite what you're asking for, but Microsoft (my employer) has a free tool for checking web and Windows apps for accessibility best practices: https://accessibilityinsights.io/

8. Vim

   7 435 37,987 9.9 Vim Script

   The official Vim repository

   

   Kivy led to one of my first open source contributions in 2014. I submitted Kivy file support to Vim. It was done via patch diffs over email with Bram Moolenaar. It's still in Vim today[1].

   RIP Bram.

   [1]: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/syntax/kivy.v...

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10. NixOS-WSL

    8 8 2,190 9.0 Nix

    NixOS on WSL [maintainer=@nzbr]

    

11. pywebview

    9 27 5,133 9.0 Python

    Build GUI for your Python program with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

    

    Pywebview + Pyinstaller gives you just that.

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12. plyer

    10 20 1,690 8.9 Python

    Plyer is a platform-independent Python wrapper for platform-dependent APIs

    

    Thanks for sharing your experience and links! Based on plyer's GH, it looks like you could use it to develop an iOS and Android app. If it supported more APIs (like Health Kit, accessibility), I would try it in a heartbeat.

    https://github.com/kivy/plyer

13. uv

    11 97 51,271 10.0 Rust

    An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.

    

    Ah, sorry I misunderstood.

    Yes, it would be nice to have that by default.

    In fact, it's what uv (https://github.com/astral-sh/uv) does, and one of the reasons it's so fast and became so popular so quickly.

    Astral for the win.

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