Kivy Kv File Behaves Different from Builder. Load_String

I'm trying to implement a 2 screen app on kivy. I have followed their example and it works if "Builder.load_string" is called in main.py.

However, if I comment it out and create a .kv file, I just get a blank screen. What am I doing wrong?

from kivy.app import App
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import ScreenManager, Screen

#Builder.load_string("""
#<MainScreen>:
    #BoxLayout:
        #Button:
            #text: 'Goto settings'
            #on_press: root.manager.current = 'settings'
        #Button:
            #text: 'Quit'

#<SettingsScreen>:
    #BoxLayout:
        #Button:
            #text: 'My settings button'
        #Button:
            #text: 'Back to menu'
            #on_press: root.manager.current = 'main'
#""")

# Declare both screens
class MainScreen(Screen):
    pass

class SettingsScreen(Screen):
    pass

# Create the screen manager
sm = ScreenManager()
sm.add_widget(MainScreen(name='main'))
sm.add_widget(SettingsScreen(name='settings'))

class TestApp(App):

    def build(self):
        return sm

if __name__ == '__main__':
    TestApp().run()

And here is testapp.kv

<MainScreen>:
    BoxLayout:
        Button:
            text: 'Goto settings'
            on_press: root.manager.current = 'settings'
        Button:
            text: 'Quit'

<SettingsScreen>:
    BoxLayout:
        Button:
            text: 'My settings button'
        Button:
            text: 'Back to menu'
            on_press: root.manager.current = 'main'