Setting custom splash screen in Kivy android app

26 July 2024

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Kivy is a platform-independent GUI tool in Python. It can run on Android, IOS, Linux and Windows, etc. This is the only GUI library from python which can independently run on the android device even we can use it on Raspberry pi also. It is an open-source Python library for the rapid development of multitouch applications. Its graphic engine is built over OpenGL, and it also supports a fast graphics pipeline.

In this article, we will see how we can add a custom splashscreen in kivy android app!

Getting Started

Basically, our motive is to show you how you add a custom splash screen that’s why we haven’t added anything thing on the main screen of the app except a center green box which denotes the app is working properly. And we are using our neveropen logo as a custom splash screen for this application.

Python3

# importing Kivy App 
from kivy.app import App 
  
# importing builder from kivy 
from kivy.lang import Builder 
  
  
# this is the main class which  
# will render the whole application 
class uiApp(App): 
  
    # method which will render our application 
    def build(self): 
        return Builder.load_string(""" 
BoxLayout: 
    BoxLayout: 
    BoxLayout: 
        canvas.before: 
            Color: 
                rgba:[0,1,0,1] 
            Rectangle: 
                pos:self.pos 
                size:self.size 
    BoxLayout: 
                                   """) 
  
  
# running the application 
uiApp().run() 

Steps for connecting phone with device:

Step 1: Connect USB with your phone and pc and allow Transfer Files in the phone’s generated popup.

Step 2: Then go to the phone’s setting and unlock developers mode in your device (if you haven’t) you can make yourself a developer by clicking several times on the build number in your phone.