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

Bundling assets

Go applications are designed to run from a single binary file. This means they can easily be distributed and do not rely on installation scripts. Unfortunately, this benefit results in a cost for developers—we cannot rely on resources being found along with our applications in the way that web or mobile app developers can (and as we have been doing during development). To ensure that our applications conform to this design, we must embed any required assets into the application binary. This includes fonts, images, and any other static content that is needed for the application to operate correctly.

The Fyne toolkit provides a tool for the bundling of assets that is recommended for any apps built using Fyne. The benefit of using this tool is that it generates fyne.Resource definitions for each embedded resource, which makes it easy to pass embedded assets into various Fyne APIs. This bundle tool is actually a command within the project's fyne command...