import kivy kivy.require('1.0.8') from kivy.app import App from kivy.uix.button import Button from kivy.uix.scrollview import ScrollView from kivy.uix.gridlayout import GridLayout class ScrollViewApp(App): def build(self): # create a default grid layout with custom width/height layout = GridLayout(cols=1, padding=10, spacing=10, size_hint=(None, None), width=500) # when we add children to the grid layout, its size doesn't change at # all. we need to ensure that the height will be the minimum required # to contain all the childs. (otherwise, we'll child outside the # bounding box of the childs) layout.bind(minimum_height=layout.setter('height')) # add button into that grid for i in range(30): btn = Button(text=str(i), size=(480, 40), size_hint=(None, None)) layout.add_widget(btn) # create a scroll view, with a size < size of the grid root = ScrollView(size_hint=(None, None), size=(500, 320), pos_hint={'center_x': .5, 'center_y': .5}, do_scroll_x=False) root.add_widget(layout) return root if __name__ == '__main__': ScrollViewApp().run()