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

A vision of the future

The Fyne project was created in response to growing criticism of the complexity in existing graphical toolkits and application APIs and their inability to adapt to modern devices and best practices. It was designed with the aim of being easy to use, and the Go language was chosen for its powerful simplicity.

The vision statement on the Fyne project wiki (https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne/wiki/Vision) states the following:

Fyne’s APIs aim to be the best for developing beautiful, usable, and lightweight applications for desktop and beyond.

With more device types and platform-specific toolkits than we have seen in recent times, it is more difficult, and more expensive than ever, to deliver a great native app experience across all platforms. The Fyne toolkit is positioned as a solution to these challenges, while bringing the design and user experience learning from modern mobile apps to all devices.