{"id":1422,"date":"2014-08-17T22:57:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T22:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2014-08-23T03:38:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T03:38:42","slug":"kivy-wrap-for-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/kivy-wrap-for-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Kivy wrap for the summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I conclude my summer work<\/a> on Kivy<\/a> and Plyer<\/a>, here’s a post to summarize all the contributions I have made. It would also be useful to start from here when I wish to revisit any of this in future.<\/p>\n

To draw a comparison to the current state of Plyer development, this table shows a list of supported\u00a0facades before the summer started:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Platform<\/th>\nAndroid < 4.0<\/th>\nAndroid > 4.0<\/th>\niOS<\/th>\nWindows<\/th>\nOSX<\/th>\nLinux<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Accelerometer<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Camera (taking picture)<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GPS<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Notifications<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Text to speech<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Email (open mail client)<\/td>\n<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

If you have been following the updates<\/a>, you would have come across my weekly progress posts over the last couple of months. Here’s a list of all such posts since mid-summer for easy access (also check out my mid-summer summary post<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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  1. I can haz commit access and other updates<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Maintenance work in progress<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Plyer on iOS<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. More, more facades<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And\u00a0in comparison to the table above, this is how the Plyer support looks like as of today after all these changes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Platform<\/th>\nAndroid < 4.0<\/th>\nAndroid > 4.0<\/th>\niOS<\/th>\nWindows<\/th>\nOSX<\/th>\nLinux<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    Accelerometer<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Camera (taking picture)<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    GPS<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Notifications<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Text to speech<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Email (open mail client)<\/td>\n<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Vibrator<\/td>\n<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Sms (send messages)<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Compass<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Unique ID (IMEI or SN)<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Gyroscope<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Battery<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    Of course there’s more than what meets the eye. There has been a lot of background work that went into writing them. This included understanding the individual platforms APIs and working with other Kivy projects — Pyjnius<\/a> and Pyobjus<\/a> that support this work. Some of these changes called for a re-write of old facades in order to follow a consistent approach. Since Plyer is at an early stage of development, I also contributed some maintenance code and writing build scripts.<\/p>\n

    In the beginning of August, I took a break from facade development for two weeks and made recommendations on making Kivy apps more accessible. I looked into existing projects that could be useful for us and pointed at a possible candidate that we could adapt for our purposes. Here are the two posts summarizing my investigations:<\/p>\n

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    1. Towards Making Kivy Apps Accessible<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Towards Making Kivy Apps Accessible \u2013 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      At this point, I would also include a thank you note to everyone on #kivy and #plyer on freenode for helping me out whenever I got stuck. This was the first time I actively participated in IRC discussions over an extended period. I also tried to return the favor by offering help,\u00a0when I could, to other new users. Apart from getting a chance to work with the Kivy community from all around the world (with so many timezones!), there were couple of other firsts as well that I experienced while working on the project. Those served as good learning experiences and a motivation for making contributions to open source.<\/p>\n

      Overall, it was a quite a fun experience contributing to kivy over the summer and I hope to continue doing so every now and then. Now as Kivy is gaining more<\/a> popularity<\/a> everyday, I hope to see many more users diving into writing code for it and be a part of this community. Hope these posts could also serve to point them to relevant development opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      As I conclude my summer work on Kivy and Plyer, here’s a post to summarize all the contributions I have made. It would also be useful to start from here when I wish to revisit any of this in future. To draw a comparison to the current state of Plyer development, this table shows a … Continue reading Kivy wrap for the summer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-python","category-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46eol-mW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}