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

Using fyne-cross

To make it easier to manage the various development environments and toolchains required for cross-compiling a project, we can use the fyne-cross command. This cross-compiling utility uses Docker containers to download and run the development tools of different operating systems, right from your favorite desktop computer.

Installing fyne-cross

Before you can install fyne-cross, you will need a recent version of Go (at least 1.13) and must have Docker installed. On macOS and Windows, there is a Docker Desktop application that can help you manage your Docker setup, while on Linux, most distributions have a docker package readily available. More information about working with Docker is available in Chapter 9, Bundling Resources and Preparing for Release.

Once Docker has been installed, you can use the standard Go tools to install fyne-cross. The following command will be sufficient: