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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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Sample application

It's time to dust off the GoMail application design again and adapt it for GTK+ widgets. As the andlabs UI application (when run on Linux) was using GTK+, it would seem logical to start from there. However, this time we are not limited by the lowest common denominator design constraint, which the native cross-platform design of andlabs worked around, so let's start from scratch and see what GTK+ can do.

Layout

Basic layout with GTK+-based applications uses a familiar vertical and horizontal box model. Go-GTK (as a straightforward binding to this API) exposes this same functionality. We lay out the GoMail main window using a vertical box to position the menu and toolbar above the main content...

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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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