Python and Kivy for an Android app

For my make-up hack week I had a small number of short projects I wanted to try out and get some creative juices flowing. One project was to FINALLY write an Android app (using Python and Kivy) and get to the point where I felt I had a development pipeline for apps I might want to create.

Short version – I got some 3 year old Kivy code into an .apk and got it installed on my old Galaxy S4, and it works!

Skip to the end if you want some tips on what kivy/buildozer configuration worked for me.

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