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You're reading from Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go Build responsive, cross-platform, graphical applications with the Go programming language

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789138412

Length 450 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Fyne

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Andrew Williams

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Graphical User Interface Development FREE CHAPTER

2. The Benefits of Native Graphical Applications

3. Graphical User Interface Challenges

4. Go to the Rescue!

5. Section 2: Toolkits Using Existing Widgets

6. Walk - Building Graphical Windows Applications

7. andlabs UI - Cross-platform Native UIs

8. Go-GTK - Multiple Platforms with GTK

9. Go-Qt - Multiple Platforms with Qt

10. Section 3: Modern Graphical Toolkits

11. Shiny - Experimental Go GUI API

12. nk - Nuklear for Go

13. Fyne - Material Design-Based GUI

14. Section 4: Growing and Distributing Your Application

15. Navigation and Multiple Windows

16. Concurrency, Networking, and Cloud Services

17. Best Practices in Go GUI Development

18. Distributing Your Application

19. Installation Details

20. Cross Compiler Setup

21. Comparison of GUI Toolkits

22. Connecting GoMail to a Real Email Server

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

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GTK+ background

GTK+, or the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) Toolkit (a popular cross-platform image editor), is a cross-platform API for creating graphical applications. The project aims to provide a complete set of GUI widgets, supporting small graphical utilities up to large application suites:

GIMP, which uses GTK+, shown on Windows Vista; copyright the GTK+ team

Since its creation, the toolkit's adoption has rapidly expanded, supported by its open source license, which supports its use in commercial and freely available applications alike. While version 1.0 (released in 1998) was primarily to support the functions of the GIMP application, by 1.2 (released less than a year later) the toolkit was aiming at a broader audience. In 2002, version 2.0 was released, which saw GTK+ become the official tookit for the Gnome Linux desktop. This fully featured release...

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Authors (1)

Andrew Williams

Andrew Williams has over 15 years of commercial software development experience across a variety of programming languages, including Java, C, Objective-C, and Go. He has been a core developer in large open source projects such as Enlightenment, EFL, and Maven, as well as maintaining various community websites and tutorials. Since 2007, Andrew has been working as CTO with many early-stage and growing software start-ups. After 6 years spent expanding an award-winning mobile app development company, he is now applying the lessons he has learned to cross-platform desktop applications using Go. Andrew is passionate about building tools and services that make software development simpler and improve productivity, as well as making it easier to become a great software engineer.

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