After fully configuring your workspace, we can get a simple Kivy pong game app set up. You will need to create a directory for the game and a main.py file.
```python
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.widget import Widget


class PongGame(Widget):
    pass


class PongApp(App):
    def build(self):
        return PongGame()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    PongApp().run()
```

Running this should only display a black screen. At this point, we have created a simply Kivy app which creates an instance of our PongGame widget class and returns it as the root element for the application UI.

In the next node, we will draw the Pong backround and scores.


The Pong Game Example

Before installing Kivy, be sure you have the latest version of Python. You may install Kivy on Windows, OS X, and Linux with pip. 
```
python -m pip install kivy[base]
```
More information on recommendations can be found in the Kivy documentation.

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Common mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS do not natively support Python. To build native mobile applications for these operating systems, a mobile app framework such as Kivy or BeeWare can allow Python mobile development.

Some advantages of developing mobile applications with Python include readability and ease of use with code, cross compatibility between Android and iOS, and potentially more efficient development.

Learn Before

Related

Learn After