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

Manually installing compilers

Installing compilers and toolchains is complex, but this appendix will attempt to guide you through the main steps. This approach is sometimes preferred by developers who want to manage every single detail of their computer. It may also be easier if your computer has previously been used for C development and creating native apps for multiple platforms.

Preparing to build for a different target varies, depending on the system you want to compile for. We'll start by looking at macOS, before exploring Windows and Linux afterward. It is not necessary to follow these steps to build mobile apps since we installed these tools in Appendix B: Installing Mobile Build Tools.

Cross compiling for macOS

When cross compiling for macOS, it's necessary to install the Software Development Kit (SDK) from Apple, as well as a suitable compiler. The instructions for Windows (using MSYS2, as described in Appendix A, Developer Tool Installation) and Linux...