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Kivy Cookbook

You're reading from   Kivy Cookbook Enhance your skills in developing multi-touch applications with Kivy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783987382
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hugo Solis Hugo Solis
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kivy and the Kv Language FREE CHAPTER 2. Input, Motion, and Touch 3. Events 4. Widgets 5. Graphics – Canvas and Instructions 6. Advanced Graphics – Shaders and Rendering 7. The API in Detail 8. Packaging our Apps for PC 9. Kivy for Mobile Devices Index

Using Carousel

The Carousel widget is an advanced way to present pictures, which is already present in modern apps. This is because it permits to display a large number of pictures in a helpful way for when the user wants to search for a particular one. In this recipe, we will create an app with the Carousel widget where the user will navigate between three pictures. They will look like the following:

Using Carousel

If you drag the image to the right, you will see this next image:

Using Carousel

Getting ready

In order to start this recipe, it is necessary to have three different pictures in standard formats (that is, PNG or JPEG). We have to rename them as f0.png, f1.png, and f2.png, or with the .jpg extension if it is appropriate.

How to do it…

To complete this recipe, we will use just a Python file where we will call the Carousel widget and set it up to display our pictures. Follow these steps:

  1. Import the usual kivy packages.
  2. Import the Factory package.
  3. Import the Carousel widget.
  4. Define the root widget class.
  5. In the...
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