Mirko Galimberti
Mirko Galimberti
Our current implementation of the camera provider for Android works on top of the old and deprecated **Camera API** (https://developer.android.com/media/camera/camera-deprecated/camera-api). We should consider migrating to `CameraX` or `Camera2` instead, as...
During the years we left `PY2` compatibility code around the code. Kivy `3.0.0` is an opportunity to do some cleanup, since we do not support Python 2 anymore. E.g: https://github.com/kivy/kivy/blob/5df8304480f5980ed8dc5f08919efffbe9e48da5/kivy/graphics/instructions.pyx#L19
The new `kivy.core.accessibility` provider will expose some classes, to better accommodate accessibility tools. **kivy.core.accessibility.AccessibilityRoleType**: An `Enum`, that defines the role of the linked widget (static text, text box, container ...),...
In the last few days, I had the chance to chat with one of the https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit core developers, regarding accessibility in Kivy. For the last decade, Kivy has evolved quite...
Accessibility tools need to know a set of additional metadata, currently not exposed by Kivy Widgets. This includes: - Role of the widget for accessibility tools - Widget-specific data, such...
Sometimes, and #8596 is one of these cases, we need to get the native Window handle. With SDL2 (our main window core provider) that could be done by exposing the...
As explained by one of the AccessKit core developers (and as shown by a POC), in certain cases, like when running on Windows, accessibility tools need to "install" (attach on...
Similar to https://github.com/kivy/kivy/issues/8574, handling text input internationally is a painful task, and sometimes we do not even have a proper API to handle it, as text input is something strictly...