''' Asynchronous image loading ========================== Test of the widget AsyncImage. We are just putting it in a CenteredAsyncImage for beeing able to center the image on screen without doing upscale like the original AsyncImage. ''' from kivy.app import App from kivy.uix.image import AsyncImage from kivy.lang import Builder Builder.load_string(''' : size: self.texture_size size_hint: None, None pos_hint: {'center_x': 0.5, 'center_y': 0.5} ''') class CenteredAsyncImage(AsyncImage): pass class TestAsyncApp(App): def build(self): return CenteredAsyncImage( source='http://kivy.org/funny-pictures-cat-is-expecting-you.jpg') if __name__ == '__main__': TestAsyncApp().run()