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Building Cross-Platform GUI Applications with Fyne

You're reading from   Building Cross-Platform GUI Applications with Fyne Create beautiful, platform-agnostic graphical applications using Fyne and the Go programming language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563162
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Williams Andrew Williams
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Checking for UI hints

As Fyne is built using Material Design principles, it is possible to make use of their recommendations for good and bad ways to use certain components and how you should and shouldn't combine elements for a great UX.

Built into the Fyne toolkit is the concept of hints. These are suggestions that widgets and other components can make about how an app could make changes to offer an improved user interface.

We will start exploring what these hints can offer by creating a simple example tab container application. This code snippet will load two tabs into a tab container (the makeTabs() function). We then include a main() function that will load a new app, create a window, and set the tabs to be its content. The function then runs our app in the usual way as follows:

package main
import (
    "fyne.io/fyne/v2/app"
    "fyne.io/fyne/v2/container"
    "fyne.io/fyne/v2/theme...
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