This: (https://imgur.com/a/Y9Xwl) (can't format it for some reason) is the user interface I am currently trying to create in Kivy. I am having difficulty recreating this as I do not understand the layout system and I have read a lot of documentation, watched a lot of Youtube videos, tinkered with the code and still I cannot get the desired result. So far this is my code, it has all the widgets that I need within it, they're just not sized/positioned how I want them:
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.label import Label
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.properties import ListProperty
from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout
from kivy.uix.dropdown import DropDown
from kivy.uix.button import Button
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import ScreenManager, Screen, FadeTransition
class CaloriesScreen(Screen):
pass
class categoriesScreen(Screen):
pass
class loginScreen(Screen):
pass
class registerScreen(Screen):
pass
class shoppingListScreen(Screen):
pass
class theScreenManager(ScreenManager):
pass
root_widget = Builder.load_string('''
#:import FadeTransition kivy.uix.screenmanager.FadeTransition
theScreenManager:
transition: FadeTransition()
CaloriesScreen:
<CaloriesScreen>:
name: 'calories'
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'vertical'
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'horizontal'
size_hint: 1, .3
Button:
text: '<'
size_hint: .1, 1
font_size: 75
background_normal: ""
background_color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
on_release: app.root.current = 'main'
Label:
text: 'Calories'
halign: 'left'
font_size: 50
canvas.before:
Color:
rgb: 0.18, .5, .92
Rectangle:
pos: self.pos
size: self.size
Widget:
size_hint: .1, 1
canvas.before:
Color:
rgb: 0.18, .5, .92
Rectangle:
pos: self.pos
size: self.size
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'horizontal'
size_hint: 1, .4
canvas.before:
Color:
rgb: 0.8, 0.8, 0.8
Rectangle:
pos: self.pos
size: self.size
Label:
text: 'Recipes'
font_size: 30
color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
size_hint: 1, 1
Button:
id: btn
text: 'Select a recipe...'
on_release: dropdown.open(self)
height: '48dp'
size_hint: .5, .3
pos: self.x, .3
DropDown:
id: dropdown
on_parent: self.dismiss()
on_select: btn.text = '{}'.format(args[1])
Button:
text: 'First recipe'
size_hint_y: None
height: '48dp'
on_release: dropdown.select('First Item')
Button:
text: 'Second recipe'
size_hint_y: None
height: '48dp'
on_release: dropdown.select('Second Item')
Button:
text: 'Third recipe'
size_hint_y: None
height: '48dp'
on_release: dropdown.select('Third Item')
Button:
text: '+'
font_size: 30
background_normal: ""
background_color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
#on_release:
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'vertical'
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'horizontal'
Label:
text: 'Food'
font_size: 30
color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
Label:
text: 'Cal'
font_size: 30
color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'horizontal'
Label:
text: 'Simple Cheese Omelette'
font_size: 30
color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
Label:
text: '241'
font_size: 30
color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'horizontal'
Label:
text: 'Burger'
font_size: 30
color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
Label:
text: '295'
font_size: 30
color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'horizontal'
Label:
text: 'Tomato and caper linguine '
font_size: 30
color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
Label:
text: '393'
font_size: 30
color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'vertical'
canvas.before:
Color:
rgb: 0.8, 0.8, 0.8
Rectangle:
pos: self.pos
size: self.size
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'horizontal'
Label:
text: 'Total Cal'
font_size: 30
color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
Label:
text: '929'
font_size: 30
color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'horizontal'
Label:
text: 'You are under calories'
font_size: 30
color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
Button:
text: 'Clear'
font_size: 75
background_normal: ""
background_color: 0.18, .5, .92, 1
#on_release:
''')
class RecipeApp(App):
def build(self):
return root_widget
if __name__ == "__main__":
RecipeApp().run()
This(https://imgur.com/a/zW2z0) (can't format it for some reason) is what the output of that code looks like. The top bar with the "<" button is how I want it and I've only tried to edit the horizontal row of widgets below it. I cannot position the dropdown menu with the 'select your recipe' label how I would like it. I have tried altering it's y-axis multiple times but it always sinks to the botton of the boxlayout. I even tried giving it a new boxlayout just for the dropdown and tried doing: pos: self.parent.x, self.parent.y * 0.5 assuming it would go halfway up the y-axis of it's parent layout (the boxlayout) but still nothing. I am wondering whether it would be better to just use a floatlayout and manually position all the widgets but I am unsure how this will work well when I compile it into an APK for an Android device. What is the best way to go about positioning my widgets on the screen?
