Plyer

Plyer is a platform-independent api to use features commonly found on various platforms, notably mobile ones, in Python.

How

Plyer tries not to reinvent the wheel, and will call for external libraries to implement the api in the easiest way, depending on the current platform.

• on python-for-android, pyjnius is used
• on kivy-ios, pyobjus is used
• on windows/mac/linux, commonly found libraries and programs will be used

Supported APIs

Platform	Android	iOS	Windows	OS X	Linux
Accelerometer	X	X		X	X
Audio recording	X
Barometer	X	X
Battery	X	X	X	X	X
Bluetooth	X			X
Brightness	X	X			X
Call	X	X
Camera (taking picture)	X	X
Compass	X	X
Email (open mail client)	X	X	X	X	X
Flash	X	X
GPS	X	X
Gravity	X	X
Gyroscope	X	X
Humidity	X
IR Blaster	X
Light	X
Native file chooser			X	X	X
Notifications	X		X	X	X
Number of Processors					X
Orientation	X
Proximity	X
Sms (send messages)	X	X
Spatial Orientation	X	X
Storage Path	X	X	X	X	X
Temperature	X
Text to speech	X	X	X	X	X
Unique ID	X	X	X	X	X
Vibrator	X	X
Wifi			X	X	X

Support

If you need assistance, you can ask for help on our mailing list:

• User Group : https://groups.google.com/group/kivy-users
• Email : [email protected]

We also have an IRC channel:

• Server : irc.freenode.net
• Port : 6667, 6697 (SSL only)
• Channel : #kivy

Contributing

We love pull requests and discussing novel ideas. Check out our contribution guide and feel free to improve Plyer.

The following mailing list and IRC channel are used exclusively for discussions about developing the Kivy framework and its sister projects:

• Dev Group : https://groups.google.com/group/kivy-dev
• Email : [email protected]

IRC channel:

• Server : irc.freenode.net
• Port : 6667, 6697 (SSL only)
• Channel : #kivy-dev

License

Plyer is released under the terms of the MIT License. Please refer to the LICENSE file.