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Published inJan 2021
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Andrew Williams
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Andrew Williams

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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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...

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Published in: Jan 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800563162

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Andrew Williams

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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