title: Kivy and matplotlib?
body: <p>I just wanted to know if matplotlib is compatible with kivy 1.9.0, and how I do I go about implementing it if it's possible? If it's isn't supported, does kivy have something very similar to it?</p>
  
  <p>I want to able use this particular code from one my programs in my kivy app:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def printPieChart(table, column):
      if column == 6:
          columnList = table.iloc[:, -1:].values.T.ravel()
      else:
          columnList = table.iloc[:, (column - 7): (column - 6)].values.T.ravel()
      countedList = Counter(columnList)
  
      #set up the size of the pie chart
      fig = plt.figure(figsize=[10, 10])
      ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
      cmap = plt.cm.prism
  
      #input variables for pie function
      slices = [float(v) for v in countedList.values()]
      colors = cmap(np.linspace(0., 1., len(slices)))
      labels = [float(k) for k in countedList]
      columnHeaders = list(table.columns.values)
  
      #the pie chart
      pie_wedge_collection = ax.pie(slices, colors = colors, labels = labels, labeldistance = 1.05, autopct = '%1.1f%%')
      #get rid of the black outlines between the wedges and around the pie
      for pie_wedge in pie_wedge_collection[0]:
          pie_wedge.set_edgecolor('white')
      ax.set_title(columnHeaders[column + 1])
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I wanted to make a compilation recipe for matplotlib would it be along these lines?</p>
  
  <pre><code>#!/bin/bash
  
  VERSION_matplotlib=${VERSION_matplotlib:-1.4.3}
  DEPS_matplotlib=(numpy python dateutil pyparsing six linpng pytz freetype agg PyCXX qhull ttconv)
  URL_matplotlib=http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/matplotlib/matplotlib-$VERSION_matplotlib.tar.gz
  MD5_matplotlib=f43c20480a1673185afefc7d4848a1d2
  BUILD_matplotlib=$BUILD_PATH/matplotlib/$(get_directory $URL_matplotlib)
  RECIPE_matplotlib=$RECIPES_PATH/matplotlib
  
  # function called for preparing source code if needed
  # (you can apply patch etc here.)
  function prebuild_matplotlib() {
      true
  }
  
  function shouldbuild_lxml() {
      if [ -d "$SITEPACKAGES_PATH/matplotlib" ]; then
          DO_BUILD=0
      fi
  }
  
  # function called to build the source code
  function build_matplotlib() {
      cd $BUILD_matplotlib
  
      push_arm
  
      export CC="$CC -I$BUILD_numpy/"
      export LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_numpy/numpy/.libs -L$BUILD_numpy/numpy/.libs -L$BUILD_numpy/.libs -L$BUILD_numpy/numpy -L$BUILD_numpy/numpy -L$BUILD_numpy/  $LDFLAGS"
      export LDSHARED="$LIBLINK"
  
      chmod +x $BUILD_numpy/numpy-config
      export PATH=$PATH:$BUILD_numpy
      #plus more for the other dependencies
      try $HOSTPYTHON setup.py build_ext -I$BUILD_matplotlib
      try find . -iname '*.pyx' -exec $CYTHON {} \;
      try $HOSTPYTHON setup.py build_ext -v
      try find build/lib.* -name "*.o" -exec $STRIP {} \;
  
      export PYTHONPATH=$BUILD_hostpython/Lib/site-packages
      try $BUILD_hostpython/hostpython setup.py install -O2 --root=$BUILD_PATH/python-install --install-lib=lib/python2.7/site-packages
  
      unset LDSHARED
      pop_arm
  }
  
  # function called after all the compile have been done
  function postbuild_matplotlib() {
      true
  }
  </code></pre>