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Andrew Williams graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2003 with a bachelor's degree, with honors, in computer science. After university, he went to work as a software engineer and has gained over 15 years of commercial software development experience across a variety of programming languages, including Java, C, Objective-C, and Go. Andrew has spent many years working as a CTO with many early-stage and growing software start-ups. He has been a core developer in large open source projects, including Enlightenment, EFL, and Maven, as well as involved in maintaining various community websites and tutorials. Andrew's passion for building tools and services that make software development simpler led him to start authoring books on the subject.
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Building your application for release

As we saw in Chapter 9, Bundling Resources and Preparing for Release, the fyne package command bundles our application binary and metadata into a format that can be installed on operating systems (OSes) just like any native graphical application. However, in addition to differing formats for each platform, there are additional considerations when looking to distribute software, such as certification and app store upload file formats. To handle this, there is another sub-command within the build tool, fyne release.

In this section, we will learn how to use the release command to prepare an application for sharing.

Running the release command

Just like the fyne package command that we saw in Chapter 9, Bundling Resources and Preparing for Release, this new release command is responsible for packaging up our application with its metadata. The release command, however, applies changes to the application in preparation for distribution. The...

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Andrew Williams graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2003 with a bachelor's degree, with honors, in computer science. After university, he went to work as a software engineer and has gained over 15 years of commercial software development experience across a variety of programming languages, including Java, C, Objective-C, and Go. Andrew has spent many years working as a CTO with many early-stage and growing software start-ups. He has been a core developer in large open source projects, including Enlightenment, EFL, and Maven, as well as involved in maintaining various community websites and tutorials. Andrew's passion for building tools and services that make software development simpler led him to start authoring books on the subject.
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