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

Technical requirements

In this chapter, we will be writing our first Fyne code, including building a complete application. To do this, you will need to have the Go compiler installed, as well as a code editor application. You can download Go from the home page at https://golang.org/dl/. The choice of code editor is normally a matter of user preference, but Microsoft's Visual Studio Code and JetBrain's GoLand applications are both highly recommended.

As Fyne uses some operating system APIs internally, you will also need to have a C compiler installed. Developers on Linux will probably already have one; macOS users can simply install Xcode from the Mac App Store. Windows-based developers will need to install a compiler, such as MSYS2, TDM-GCC, or Cygwin—more details can be found in Appendix A – Developer Tool Installation.

The full source code for this chapter can be found in the book's GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building...