Kivy Tutorial #12 – Converting Kivy to Android APK | Buildozer

In this video, we will be converting our Kivy desktop app to an android app. We will be doing this by using buildozer which is used to convert Kivy files to apk.

Steps to convert Kivy to Android APK –

Note – If you are using Linux or Mac. Open up your terminal and directly jump to step number 4

1) Signup on Digital Ocean
https://m.do.co/c/c2cf5bc2a760 – Use this link to get 100$ free

2) Create a Droplet
3) Open up terminal Access Console and login using you One-Time Password
4) Installing Python and Virtual Environment
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-python-3-and-set-up-a-local-programming-environment-on-ubuntu-16-04
5) Install buildozer – https://buildozer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#targeting-android
6) Install Filezilla ( skip if Linux or Mac) – https://filezilla-project.org/download.php
7) Connect Filzilla to server ( skip if Linux or Mac)
8) Upload your kivy folder to enviroments folder ( in linux/mac just go to your kivy folder using terminal)
9) buildozer init
10) buildozer -v android debug

11) Using Filezilla download the apk in your bin directory
12) Copy this apk file to your phone
13) Run it. ( You need to enable install apk with unknown sources)

Source Code – https://github.com/attreyabhatt/Kivy-Pong-Game/tree/master/PingPong

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