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Package Your App for macOS
For more on PyInstaller, check out Using PyInstaller to Easily Distribute Python Applications.
00:00 Packaging Your App. Now that you’ve finished the code for your application, you can share it with others. In the next sections of the course, you’ll see how to package your Kivy app for multiple platforms, starting out with macOS.
00:14 You can package your Kivy application for macOS using PyInstaller. If you’ve never used it before and want to know more, then check out this Real Python course.
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You can install PyInstaller using pip.
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And then you’ll need to run it with the command seen on-screen. The -w flag tells PyInstaller to run a windowed application without a terminal in the background, and the --onefile option creates a single file version of the application, which makes it easy to distribute.
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This will create an executable file in the dist/ folder. The executable will be the same name as the Python file you passed into PyInstaller.
01:26 In the next section of the course, you’ll see how to package your app for Linux.
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