Welcome to Buildozer’s documentation!

Buildozer is a tool that aim to package mobiles application easily. It automates the entire build process, download the prerequisites like python-for-android, Android SDK, NDK, etc.

Buildozer manages a file named buildozer.spec in your application directory, describing your application requirements and settings such as title, icon, included modules etc. It will use the specification file to create a package for Android, iOS, and more.

Currently, Buildozer supports packaging for:

• Android: via Python for Android. You must have a Linux or OSX computer to be able to compile for Android.
• iOS: via Kivy iOS. You must have an OSX computer to be able to compile for iOS.
• Supporting others platform is in the roadmap (such as .exe for Windows, .dmg for OSX, etc.)

If you have any questions about Buildozer, please refer to the Kivy’s user mailing list.

• Installation
  • Targeting Android
  • Targeting IOS
• Quickstart
  • Init and build for Android
  • Run my application
  • Install on non-connected devices
• Specifications
  • Section [app]
• Contribute
  • Write your own recipe

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page