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

Installing on Apple macOS

Many developer tools (including Git) are installed as part of the Xcode package. If you haven't already installed Xcode for other development work, you can download it for free from the Mac App Store at apps.apple.com/app/xcode/id497799835.

Once installed, you should also set up the command-line tools. To do this, go to the Xcode menu | Preferences | Downloads | Install Command Line Tools. If you're unsure about whether you've installed these already, then open the Terminal application and execute xcode-select. If the tools are already installed, this will execute normally. If not, you'll be prompted to run the installation, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 11.1 – The installation dialog window when developer tools are not installed

In addition to these tools, you'll need to install Go. You can get the download package from golang.org/dl. From there, tap on the featured download link for...