Copy your Kivy App from local machine to a folder in Home folder.

Enter adb devices into the terminal to start detecting your phone or tablet.

Give permission to all users to read and write by typing chmod 777 les into the terminal.

In which you replace USB-VENDOR-ID with the ID of your device in Table 1

Add the following lines to the end of the file:Įxport PATH=$=”USB-VENDOR-ID”, MODE=”0666″.

Start your file manager on your Virtual Machine and Click on View » Show Hidden Files.

Start VirtualBox, select Kivy/Buildozer VM and click Start.

Setting up adb/USB drivers on your Virtual Machine

Please refer to P圜harm Project Interpreter Setup.Install KV Lang Auto-completion and Highlighting.Download P圜harm Community and install it.Click on Settings » USB, check Enable USB Controller, checkbox USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller, and click Add new USB filters e.g.

Click on Settings » Shared Folders and click Add new shared folder.

Click on Settings » General » Advanced and select Bidirectional in the drop-down list for Shared Clipboard:, and Drag’n’Drop:.

Select the extracted directory, file named, Buildozer VM.ovf.

Start VirtualBox, click on File » Import Appliance….

Download Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack for all platforms and install it.

Download the version of VirtualBox for your machine from Oracle VirtualBox download area and install it.

Download Kivy Buildozer VM and unzip the file.

Virtual Machine containing Kivy and Buildozer setup

To spare others the hours of looking at rushed documentation (especially for Buildozer) I decided to merge some guides together of all the extra work that to be done to be able to make Buildozer compile your Python code on a Windows operating system. While working on a project with these libraries it has come to my attention that this process can however be troublesome and time-consuming. Kivy and Buildozer together allow developers to create an Android application package (APK) from Python code. From Python to APK: How to use Kivy and Buildozer on Windows

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