How to display math formulas in kivy app?

Question

I am coding sth. like a quiz App for my math students in kivy and want to publish that as a mobile application for Android and iOS.

Now I am trying to show math formulas in a label, but I don't know how to do that.

Is there anything like https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_tex for kivy? I can't imagine, that this just exists for Flutter even though kivy is older than Flutter.

I read some questions here like How to display math-text in Kivy Python? but I don't want to export my equation to a .png file

Although the few posts here at stack overflow are at least 4 years old, so I hope, that nowadays is a solution for this problem :)

Thanks a lot for your help!

Answer 1

Kivy doesn't have particularly good equation display functionality. You'll need to find a renderer that can do it and integrate that into kivy (but I don't know if there are any good options), or pregenerate images, or manually hack things together with label positioning and unicode characters if what you're doing is simple enough.

Is there anything like https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_tex for kivy? I can't imagine, that this just exists for Flutter even though kivy is older than Flutter.

Unfortunately age isn't everything, Kivy is supported by a small group of volunteers while Flutter has enormous commercial support.