Installation
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    Installing Kivy

With Kivy, you can use your favourite development environment to start
coding your App. To get started, you need to download the latest version of
Kivy:

    http://kivy.org/#download

After download, please refer to the installation instructions for your specific platform:

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**Development Version**

If you want the development version of Kivy, so you can use the latest
additions to the framework, you can get the source code from github::

    git clone http://github.com/kivy/kivy

Take a look at our instructions on installation of the :ref:`installation_devel`