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

Summary

In this final chapter, we looked at how to package and distribute graphical applications using the Fyne tool. Unlike the distribution of command-line or system utilities, the process of delivering a GUI application requires additional metadata and packaging to integrate well with each OS. We saw how the basic release process can create an application package ready for distribution beyond our development and test team members.

Packaging for different platforms can be complicated, so we walked through the steps required to build native-looking graphical packages for macOS, Windows, and Linux, as well as mobile packaging for iOS and Android. Each package has its own metadata format and package structure, but this was generated automatically using the fyne release tool.

We also saw how to build release packages for distribution on official stores, and how these packages can be submitted to the app store or marketplace that will be preinstalled on the user's device. The...