Buildozer is a tool for creating application packages easily.
The goal is to have one "buildozer.spec" file in your app directory, describing your application requirements and settings such as title, icon, included modules etc. Buildozer will use that spec to create a package for Android, iOS, Windows, OSX and/or Linux.
Buildozer currently supports packaging for Android via the python-for-android project, and for iOS via the kivy-ios project. iOS and OSX are still under work.
For Android: please have a look at Android-SDK-NDK-Informations. Please note that the default SDK/NDK coded in Buildozer works for Python 2.
We provide a ready-to-use Virtual Machine for Virtualbox.
Note that this tool has nothing to do with the eponymous online build service buildozer.io.
Install buildozer:
# via pip (latest stable, recommended) sudo pip install buildozer # latest dev version sudo pip install https://github.com/kivy/buildozer/archive/master.zip # git clone, for working on buildozer git clone https://github.com/kivy/buildozer cd buildozer python setup.py build sudo pip install -e .
Go into your application directory and run:
buildozer init # edit the buildozer.spec, then buildozer android debug deploy run
The pip package does not yet support python3.
Install buildozer from source:
git clone https://github.com/kivy/buildozer cd buildozer python setup.py build sudo pip install -e .
Download and extract the Crystax NDK somewhere (~/.buildozer/crystax-ndk is one option): https://www.crystax.net/en/download
Go into your application directory and execute:
buildozer init
Make sure the following lines are in your buildozer.spec file.:
# Require python3crystax: requirements = python3crystax,kivy # Point to the directory where you extracted the crystax-ndk: android.ndk_path = <Your install path here. Use ~ for home DIR>
Finally, build, deploy and run the app on your phone:
buildozer android debug deploy run
Please note the "android" buildozer target, and use that for any and all buildozer commands you run (even if the docs just say "android").
# buildozer target command buildozer android clean buildozer android update buildozer android deploy buildozer android debug buildozer android release # or all in one (compile in debug, deploy on device) buildozer android debug deploy # set the default command if nothing set buildozer setdefault android debug deploy run
Usage:
buildozer [--profile <name>] [--verbose] [target] <command>...
buildozer --version
Available targets:
android Android target, based on python-for-android project
ios iOS target, based on kivy-ios project
android_old Android target, based on python-for-android project (old toolchain)
Global commands (without target):
distclean Clean the whole Buildozer environment.
help Show the Buildozer help.
init Create a initial buildozer.spec in the current directory
serve Serve the bin directory via SimpleHTTPServer
setdefault Set the default command to run when no arguments are given
version Show the Buildozer version
Target commands:
clean Clean the target environment
update Update the target dependencies
debug Build the application in debug mode
release Build the application in release mode
deploy Deploy the application on the device
run Run the application on the device
serve Serve the bin directory via SimpleHTTPServer
Target "android_old" commands:
adb Run adb from the Android SDK. Args must come after --, or
use --alias to make an alias
logcat Show the log from the device
Target "ios" commands:
list_identities List the available identities to use for signing.
xcode Open the xcode project.
Target "android" commands:
adb Run adb from the Android SDK. Args must come after --, or
use --alias to make an alias
logcat Show the log from the device
p4a Run p4a commands. Args must come after --, or use --alias
to make an alias
See buildozer/default.spec for an up-to-date spec file.
You can override the value of any buildozer.spec config token by
setting an appropriate environment variable. These are all of the
form $SECTION_TOKEN, where SECTION is the config file section and
TOKEN is the config token to override. Dots are replaced by
underscores.
For example, here are some config tokens from the [app] section of the config, along with the environment variables that would override them.
title->$APP_TITLEpackage.name->$APP_PACKAGE_NAMEp4a.source_dir->$APP_P4A_SOURCE_DIR
The current virtual machine (available via https://kivy.org/downloads/) allow you to have a ready to use vm for building android application.
If the Virtualbox Guest tools are outdated, install the latest one:
- in the Virtualbox: Devices -> Install Guest Additions CD images
- in the guest/linux: Go to the cdrom and run the installer
- reboot the vm
VirtualBox filesystem doesn't support symlink anymore (don't try the setextradata solution, it doesn't work.). So you must do the build outside the shared folder. One solution:
- sudo mkdir /build
- sudo chown kivy /build
- In your buildozer.spec, section [buildozer], set build_dir = /build/buildozer-myapp
There is a little icon on the bottom left that represent an USB plug. Select it, and select your android device on it. Then you can check:
- buildozer android adb -- devices
If it doesn't, use Google. They are so many differents way / issues depending your phone that Google will be your only source of information, not us :)
If you need assistance, you can ask for help on our mailing list:
- User Group : https://groups.google.com/group/kivy-users
- Email : [email protected]
We also have an IRC channel:
- Server : irc.freenode.net
- Port : 6667, 6697 (SSL only)
- Channel : #kivy
We love pull requests and discussing novel ideas. Check out our contribution guide and feel free to improve buildozer.
The following mailing list and IRC channel are used exclusively for discussions about developing the Kivy framework and its sister projects:
- Dev Group : https://groups.google.com/group/kivy-dev
- Email : [email protected]
IRC channel:
- Server : irc.freenode.net
- Port : 6667, 6697 (SSL only)
- Channel : #kivy-dev
Buildozer is released under the terms of the MIT License. Please refer to the LICENSE file.