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Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138412
Length 450 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Williams Andrew Williams
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

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

Section 2: Toolkits Using Existing Widgets

Let's look first at graphical app toolkits for Go that use existing widgets. These toolkits help you build applications that will match the operating system's look and feel, which is a great choice if you want to build an app that's immediately familiar to your users. This approach may have a downside, however, in the amount of testing and potential customization required for each platform you aim to support. The APIs we explore have different levels of abstraction and platform integration, so depending on your application's requirements, the effort required may vary.

This section covers three different approaches to creating GUIs that match the operating system. Firstly, we'll look at Walk, which is a Go API that's specifically for creating Windows applications. This is the most direct way to create...

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