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I too have used Kivy, using Buildozer for Android builds. One day I did something trivial like change the color of a button. The otherwise untouched project suddenly refused to build for random obscure Buildozer-related reasons I quickly lost the patience to figure out. Imagine if it was a security vulnerability I was trying to quickly patch. What's more, I think even rebuilding with the untouched source also failed now in the same way. And that's how I lost interest in pursuing Kivy further.


Yep. Kivy was a big part of my journey to usually wanting nothing to do with any niche or obscure tech.

It took me a long time to learn that no matter how awesome the concept seems, if it's not extremely popular (aside from very simple things) there's probably an issue somewhere.

At this point I would rather just make web apps for most everything, and I wish they'd just merge android and ChromeOS so we had an easy way to make simple cross platform stuff, while keeping the Android APIs for more powerful stuff.




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