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Why use the screen module?

Kivy's screen module is handy for emulating different screen sizes and dpis. This means that by using your dev machine, you can check out what your Kivy application would look like on other devices without having them. This is preferable to just guessing what your app would look like, but is in no way a replacement for actually having a test device.

Reference: https://kivy.org/doc/stable/api-kivy.modules.screen.html

Tkinter VS Kivy Tutorial Quickstart: Which one is right for you?

Why Use Tkinter or Kivy In the First Place?

Tkinter and Kivy are both cross platform GUIs that are commonly used by Python users. There are other frameworks out there but they are either: in another programming language, not available on all platforms, or a combination of both.

In this blog post, you will go through the hello world steps of both GUI interfaces on as much platforms as possible to get a feel for which one is right for you.