Modules Material App

Material App

KivyMD has the MDApp class that creates all required for KivyMD properties. Before 0.102.1 you had to create the theme_cls property, but with MDApp you don't need to do this.

Minimal app

Example of minimal app using MDApp.

from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivymd.app import MDApp

root_kv = """
BoxLayout:
    MDRaisedButton:
        text: "Click me!"
        on_release: print("Hi!")
"""


class MainApp(MDApp):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        self.title = "My Material Application"
        super().__init__(**kwargs)

    def build(self):
        self.root = Builder.load_string(root_kv)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    MainApp().run()

Changing Theme Manager properties

If you want to change theme style, primary colors or other properties of ThemeManager, you can do this in __init__ method.

from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivymd.app import MDApp

root_kv = """
BoxLayout:
    MDRaisedButton:
        text: "Click me!"
        on_release: print("Hi!")
"""


class MainApp(MDApp):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        self.title = "My Material Application"
        self.theme_cls.theme_style = "Dark"
        self.theme_cls.primary_palette = "DeepPurple"
        super().__init__(**kwargs)

    def build(self):
        self.root = Builder.load_string(root_kv)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    MainApp().run()

Accessing app

KivyMD's MDApp is a simple Kivy's App. You can access your app object with App.get_running_app() in Python code and app in KV code.

from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.app import App
from kivymd.app import MDApp
from kivymd.uix.chip import MDChip

root_kv = """
BoxLayout:
    MDRaisedButton:
        text: app.title
        on_release: app.title = "Abcd"
    
    MyWidget:
"""


class MyWidget(MDChip):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        self.label = App.get_running_app().title
        super().__init__(**kwargs)


class MainApp(MDApp):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        self.title = "My Material Application"
        super().__init__(**kwargs)

    def build(self):
        self.root = Builder.load_string(root_kv)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    MainApp().run()