''' Asynchronous image loading ========================== Test of the widget AsyncImage. We are just putting it in a CenteredAsyncImage for being 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_hint: 0.8, 0.8 pos_hint: {'center_x': 0.5, 'center_y': 0.5} mipmap: True ''') class CenteredAsyncImage(AsyncImage): pass class TestAsyncApp(App): def build(self): url = ('https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/' 'STS-116_spacewalk_1.jpg/1024px-STS-116_spacewalk_1.jpg') return CenteredAsyncImage(source=url) if __name__ == '__main__': TestAsyncApp().run()