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 Microsoft Windows

Configuring a development environment for Windows can be complicated as there aren't many tools installed by default. Due to this, there are many options for setting up, including using external tools and packages (such as MSYS2, MinGW, and Windows Subsystem for Linux). However, exploring these is outside the scope of this book.

The following steps show you how to get up and running using MSYS2, which provides a dedicated command-line application that will be set up for Fyne development. Let's get started:

You will need to download the installer from www.msys2.org. You should choose either the 32-bit (i686) or 64-bit (x86_64) version, depending on your computer architecture.
Once downloaded, run the installer, which will download the basic packages on your computer, including the package manager (pacman).
Once the installation is complete, you'll be given the opportunity to launch the MSYS Command Prompt – please...