Kivy And The Back Button

Kivy gives the ability to create not only desktop apps but mobile ones as well. And when you’re creating apps, specifically mobile ones, you’ll want to be able to do other things when the back button is pressed. For example on an Android app you might want to switch back to a previous screen instead of the default which is exiting the app completely.

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on kivy

Installing Vala And GTK Development Library

This post is to show how to install Vala and test it out. Vala is a programming language made for GNOME developers to make their life easier. Well anyways to install it, go to your terminal and run the following:

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on vala

Different Ways To Read A File In Java

I’m new to Java, and I needed to read a file. I Googled how to do this and well, I got so many variations on how to do it. But I couldn’t find a page that had more than 2 ways of doing it. So I made this list.

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on java

Using Validators From WxPython

We’ll be going over how to use the validators (PyValidator) that WxPython provides. I couldn’t find any tutorials online about this, the only search results I would get using Google was StackOverflow questions relating validators. Now I’m assuming that you already have wxpython installed and have some background in using it. I’ll do two quick examples and those are:

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on wxpython

Creating Metadata Free Images

In this post we’ll go over how to view metadata in images and how to create a new metadata-free image from it. If you don’t know what metadata is, it’s basically described as “data about data”. What this means is that it hold information about the data, in this case the image, such as the time the image was taken, camera used, model of camera, GPS location, etc. In images, I’ve found out that this is commonly known as exif data.

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on python

Simple Kivy App

I’ve been messing around with a Python library called Kivy. It’s a library that lets you create apps for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux but I’ve seen people use it mostly for mobile.

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on python