diff --git a/examples/widgets/codeinput.py b/examples/widgets/codeinput.py
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+from kivy.app import App
+from kivy.extras.highlight import KivyLexer
+from kivy.uix.codeinput import CodeInput
+from kivy.factory import Factory
+import pygments
+
+example_text = '''
+---------------------Python----------------------------------
+import kivy
+kivy.require('1.0.6') # replace with your current kivy version !
+from kivy.app import App
+from kivy.uix.button import Button
+
+class MyApp(App):
+    def build(self):
+        return Button(text='Hello World')
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    MyApp().run()
+----------------------Java------------------------------------
+
+public static byte toUnsignedByte(int intVal) {
+    byte byteVal;
+    return (byte)(intVal & 0xFF);
+}
+---------------------kv lang-------------------------
+#:kivy 1.0
+
+<YourWidget>:
+    canvas:
+        Color:
+            rgb: .5, .5, .5
+        Rectangle:
+            pos: self.pos
+            size: self.size
+-----------------HTML-----------------------------
+<!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render. -->
+<div class="g-plusone" data-annotation="inline" data-width="300"></div>
+
+<!-- Place this tag after the last +1 button tag. -->
+<script type="text/javascript">
+  (function() {
+    var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true;
+    po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js';
+    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);
+  })();
+</script>
+'''
+
+
+class CodeInputTest(App):
+    def build(self):
+        b = Factory.BoxLayout(orientation='vertical')
+        languages = Factory.Spinner(
+            text='language',
+            values=sorted(['KvLexer', ] + pygments.lexers.LEXERS.keys()),
+            size_hint_y=None,
+            height='30pt')
+
+        languages.bind(text=self.change_lang)
+        b.add_widget(languages)
+
+        self.codeinput = CodeInput(
+            lexer=KivyLexer(),
+            font_name='data/fonts/DroidSansMono.ttf', font_size=12,
+            text=example_text)
+
+        b.add_widget(self.codeinput)
+
+        return b
+
+    def change_lang(self, instance, l):
+        if l == 'KvLexer':
+            lx = KivyLexer()
+
+        else:
+            lx = pygments.lexers.get_lexer_by_name(
+                pygments.lexers.LEXERS[l][2][0])
+
+        self.codeinput.lexer = lx
+
+
+CodeInputTest().run()