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

Understanding themes

The themes within the Fyne toolkit implement the color palette, iconography, and size/padding values of the Material Design look and feel. The design of the theme API aims to ensure that applications feel consistent and deliver a good user experience while allowing developers to convey an identity and customization. All Fyne applications can be displayed in light or dark mode using built-in themes. We will look at these in detail next.

Built-in themes

Since more and more operating systems are supporting light versus dark desktop coloring, the Fyne theme specification supports both light and dark variants. By default, every app will ship with a built-in theme that provides both light and dark variants. This theme was illustrated extensively in the Introducing the basic widgets section earlier in this chapter, but to see how this all comes together, take a look at the following screenshot of a Fyne demo application that showcases widgets:

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