According to this post: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/kivy-users/n7c3thksnzg, it is possible to use Eclipse as an IDE for Kivy through PyDev. However, I
As of kivy 1.9.0, PATH must also include c:\kivy\SDL2\bin or else when trying to run kivy will throw an error and fail at opening a window. I Think I read that kivy no longer use PyGame and shifted to SDL2 since the answer posted in april 2012.