The “kivy.tools” module consists of some very useful scripts, command-line utilities and examples.

KV Viewer

Kivy doesn”t have any official visual GUI designer. Therefore, the layout design for a Kivy application becomes tedious, as the placement of widget as planned while creating the “kv” file doesn”t often give the desired result when loaded in the application.

This Kv-viewer utility allows you to dynamically display a “kv” file, taking its changes into account. One of the advantages of this utility is that you can load this “kv” script only when you are satisfied with this layout.

KViewer is a command-line utility that requires a “.kv” file as an argument.

python kviewer.py demo.kv

Example

The following “kv” file contains the design of a Demo app −

TabbedPanel:
   size_hint: .8, .8
   pos_hint: {''center_x'': .5, ''center_y'': .5}
   do_default_tab: False
   TabbedPanelItem:
      text:"Register Tab"
      GridLayout:
         cols:2
   
         Label:
            text:"Name"
            size_hint:(.2, .1)
            pos_hint:{''x'':.2, ''y'':.75}
         TextInput:
            size_hint:(.4, .1)
            pos_hint:{''x'':.3, ''y'':.65}
   
         Label:
            text:"email"
            size_hint:(.2, .1)
            pos_hint:{''x'':.2, ''y'':.55}
   
         TextInput:
            size_hint:(.4, .1)
            pos_hint:{''x'':.3, ''y'':.45}
   
         Label:
            text:"Password"
            size_hint:(.2, .1)
            pos_hint:{''x'':.2, ''y'':.35}
   
         TextInput:
            password:True
            size_hint:(.4, .1)
            pos:(400, 150)
            pos_hint:{''x'':.3, ''y'':.25}
   
         Button:
            text:''Submit''
            size_hint : (.2, .1)
            pos_hint : {''center_x'':.5, ''center_y'':.09}
   
   TabbedPanelItem:
      text:''Login Tab''
      GridLayout:
         cols:2
         
         Label:
            text:"email"
            size_hint:(.2, .1)
            pos_hint:{''x'':.2, ''y'':.55}
   
         TextInput:
            size_hint:(.4, .1)
            pos_hint:{''x'':.3, ''y'':.45}
   
         Label:
            text:"Password"
            size_hint:(.2, .1)
            pos_hint:{''x'':.2, ''y'':.35}
   
         TextInput:
            password:True
            size_hint:(.4, .1)
            pos:(400, 150)
            pos_hint:{''x'':.3, ''y'':.25}
   
         Button:
            text:''Submit''
            size_hint : (.2, .1)
            pos_hint : {''center_x'':.5, ''center_y'':.09}

Output

Let us view the design with the kviewer utility −

python kviewer.py demo.kv

It will produce the following output window −

Benchmark

This script performs and displays the results of a set of benchmarks. These provide a set of metrics mainly aimed at gauging the OpenGL performance of your system.

To run the utility, use the following command −

Python benchmark.py

You will get the following output −

GL Vendor: b''Intel''
GL Renderer: b''Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics''
GL Version: b''4.6.0 - Build 31.0.101.3959''

Benchmark
---------
1/8 Core: button creation (10000 * 10 a-z) 4.246505
2/8 Core: button creation (10000 * 10 a-z), with Clock.tick [INFO ] [GL    ] NPOT texture support is available
6.612230
3/8 Core: label creation (10000 * 10 a-z) 4.543708
4/8 Core: label creation (10000 * 10 a-z), with Clock.tick 9.790683
5/8 Widget: creation (10000 Widget) 0.308506
6/8 Widget: creation (10000 Widget + 1 root) 1.734984
7/8 Widget: event dispatch (1000 on_update in 10*1000 Widget) 0.088639
8/8 Widget: empty drawing (10000 Widget + 1 root) 0.000706

Result: 27.325960

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Generate Icons

This tool will help you to generate all the icons wanted for Google Play Store, App Store, Amazon store.

You need to give the name of the image file you want to generate the icons from, as the argument to generate-icons.py script found in the tools subdirectory.

python GPIcon.png

You will get the following output −

Generate App store high resolution: 1024x1024
Generate App store normal resolution: 512x512
Generate iPhone (iOS 7): 120x120
Generate iPhone @2 (iOS 7): 120x120
Generate iPad (iOS 7): 76x76
Generate iPad @2 (iOS 7): 152x152
Generate iPhone (iOS >= 6.1): 57x57
Generate iPhone @2 (iOS >= 6.1): 114x114
Generate iPad (iOS >= 6.1): 72x72
Generate iPad @2 (iOS >= 6.1): 114x114
Generate iTunes Artwork (ad-hoc): 512x512
Generate iTunes Artwork @2 (ad-hoc): 1024x1024
Generate Google Play icon: 512x512
Generate Launcher icon MDPI: 48x48
Generate Launcher icon HDPI: 72x72
Generate Launcher icon XHDPI: 96x96
Generate Launcher icon XXHDPI: 48x48
Generate Launcher icon XXXHDPI: 192x192
Generate Small icon: 114x114
Generate Large icon: 512x512

The icons generated by this utility are stored in the respective folders −

Report Tool

This tool is a helper for users. It generates a dump information that is useful during the debugging process.

Python report.py

Partial output is shown below −

==============================================================
Options
==============================================================
window = (''egl_rpi'', ''sdl2'', ''pygame'', ''sdl'', ''x11'')
text = (''pil'', ''sdl2'', ''pygame'', ''sdlttf'')
video = (''gstplayer'', ''ffmpeg'', ''ffpyplayer'', ''null'')
audio = (''gstplayer'', ''pygame'', ''ffpyplayer'', ''sdl2'', ''avplayer'')
image = (''tex'', ''imageio'', ''dds'', ''sdl2'', ''pygame'', ''pil'', ''ffpy'', ''gif'')
camera = (''opencv'', ''gi'', ''avfoundation'', ''android'', ''picamera'')
spelling = (''enchant'', ''osxappkit'')
clipboard = (''android'', ''winctypes'', ''xsel'', ''xclip'',
''dbusklipper'', ''nspaste'', ''sdl2'', ''pygame'', ''dummy'', ''gtk3'')

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