You're reading from Building Cross-Platform GUI Applications with Fyne Create beautiful, platform-agnostic graphical applications using Fyne and the Go programming language

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800563162

Length 318 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Django

Concepts

GUI Application Development

Author (1):

Andrew Williams

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Why Fyne? The Reason for Being and a Vision of the Future

2. Chapter 1: A Brief History of GUI Toolkits and Cross-Platform Development FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The Future According to Fyne

4. Section 2: Components of a Fyne App

5. Chapter 3: Window, Canvas, and Drawing

6. Chapter 4: Layout and File Handling

7. Chapter 5: Widget Library and Themes

8. Chapter 6: Data Binding and Storage

9. Chapter 7: Building Custom Widgets and Themes

10. Section 3: Packaging and Distribution

11. Chapter 8: Project Structure and Best Practices

12. Chapter 9: Bundling Resources and Preparing for Release

13. Chapter 10: Distribution – App Stores and Beyond

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix A: Developer Tool Installation

1. Appendix B: Installing Mobile Build Tools

2. Appendix C: Cross-Compiling

Chapter 7: Building Custom Widgets and Themes

Over the course of the previous chapters, we have seen a lot of functionality that comes as part of the Fyne toolkit. Many applications will, however, benefit from components or functionality that are not included as standard. To be able to support an easy-to-use toolkit API and at the same time support additional functionality, the Fyne toolkit provides the ability to use custom code alongside regular widgets.

In this chapter, we will explore how custom data can be used in a Fyne app, and how custom styling can be added using code or by loading custom themes.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Extending existing widgets
Creating a component from scratch
Adding a custom theme

At the end of the chapter, we will see how to make use of the custom widget and theme capabilities to create an app that presents a conversation history that could be used for various instant messenger protocols. It...