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

Test driving your development

The effort required to automatically test user interfaces or frontend software is often considered too expensive for the value it returns when it comes to avoiding future bugs. However, this is largely rooted in the toolkits being utilized or even the presentation technologies that have been chosen. Without full support for testing in the development tools or graphical APIs, it can be difficult to create simple unit tests without a huge amount of effort being needed.

One of the design principles of the Fyne toolkit is that the application GUI should be as easy to test as the rest of its code. This is partly made possible by the API's design, but this is further reinforced by the test utilities that we can provision. We will explore this later in this section. Using the following approaches, we will learn how a Fyne application can follow test-driven development (TDD), even for the user interface components.