Creating Widgets

[rubik]

Currently it's not possible to create widgets but only applications. Is it planned for the future?

[revolunet]

how different than in kivy framework ?

[tshirtman]

I think this is about android widgets
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html

and i would like that too :). Pyjnius probably makes this easier, but we still probably need java helper classes.

[rubik]

I mean: we create a Kivy app and stuff and then instead of an Android application we get an Android widget (for the launcher) out of the build chain. It could be a command-line option.

[rubik]

Apparently it's only Manifest stuff, so we could keep two manifests and add a command line option to let the user choose between them. Some tweak in the Kivy framework may be needed as well.

[nlsn]

I'm curious about this. Has anything happened on this subject in the past couple years?

[tshirtman]

No, it needs somebody wanting it enough to really try.

[FeralBytes]

Probably should be implemented via Buildozer though right? Since it already handles the manifest.

[waynew]

Anyone have any pointers? Is it just the manifest? Where would we look for more info about the manifests?

[inclement]

I'm not sure Kivy widgets would be possible, since I don't think they support opengl. The tool could support a widget bootstrap that possibly used python, but that relies entirely on someone making such a bootstrap - it's not a particular goal of the project so I'll close thi.