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

Building your application for release

As we saw in Chapter 9, Bundling Resources and Preparing for Release, the fyne package command bundles our application binary and metadata into a format that can be installed on operating systems (OSes) just like any native graphical application. However, in addition to differing formats for each platform, there are additional considerations when looking to distribute software, such as certification and app store upload file formats. To handle this, there is another sub-command within the build tool, fyne release.

In this section, we will learn how to use the release command to prepare an application for sharing.

Running the release command

Just like the fyne package command that we saw in Chapter 9, Bundling Resources and Preparing for Release, this new release command is responsible for packaging up our application with its metadata. The release command, however, applies changes to the application in preparation for distribution. The...