[ANN] Kivy 1.0 alpha released

[Mathieu Virbel]

We are pleased to present the first alpha version of Kivy 1.0.

Kivy is a full featured framework for creating novel and performant
user interfaces, such as multitouch applications, under the LGPL 3
license. The framework work on Windows, MacOSX and Linux. Android
platform is also supported, and will be released very soon. All
downloads are available on the website :

http://kivy.org

Kivy 1.0 is in _Alpha_ state, and indented to a _developer audience_.
Please test and report issues at http://github.com/tito/kivy/issues.

Don't forget to subscribe to our developers mailing list:

http://groups.google.com/group/kivy-dev

(All pymt-dev subscribers have been added into kivy-dev. If you don't
want to receive any mail from us, you can configure your membership at
http://groups.google.com/group/kivy-dev/subscribe)

The final release of Kivy 1.0 is planned on 1st March 2011.

The goal of this release is to spot any issues before the final
release, and motive you to write awesome softwares and games !

:: Features

* Running on Windows, MacOSX, Linux and Android
* Same application code for all platforms
* Graphics API on top of OpenGL ES 2.0
* Uniform access to Audio, Camera, Video, Text rendering, Spelling
* Native input support: Tuio, WM_Touch, MacOSX MT, mtdev, wacom...
* Multitouch widgets: Label, Button, Image, Scatter, Video, Camera...
* Stable and documented API
* Extensive documentation at http://kivy.org/docs/
* Continuous integration via buildbot (coverage and gl unit tests)

:: Relation between Kivy and PyMT

Kivy is the generation of PyMT tookit. The relation between PyMT and
Kivy is describe more at :

http://kivy.org/docs/faq.html#how-is-kivy-related-to-pymt

--
Mathieu, Christopher and Thomas
http://kivy.org/#aboutus