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Building Cross-Platform GUI Applications with Fyne

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563162
Pages 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Andrew Williams Andrew Williams
Profile icon Andrew Williams

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface Section 1: Why Fyne? The Reason for Being and a Vision of the Future
Chapter 1: A Brief History of GUI Toolkits and Cross-Platform Development Chapter 2: The Future According to Fyne Section 2: Components of a Fyne App
Chapter 3: Window, Canvas, and Drawing Chapter 4: Layout and File Handling Chapter 5: Widget Library and Themes Chapter 6: Data Binding and Storage Chapter 7: Building Custom Widgets and Themes Section 3: Packaging and Distribution
Chapter 8: Project Structure and Best Practices Chapter 9: Bundling Resources and Preparing for Release Chapter 10: Distribution – App Stores and Beyond Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Developer Tool Installation Appendix B: Installing Mobile Build Tools Appendix C: Cross-Compiling

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen how to deviate from the standard components and built-in theme in various ways. We explored how existing widgets can be extended and adapted, as well as how to build our own components from scratch. We also saw how custom themes can be created and how we can apply our own customizations to the default theme through theme extension.

With this knowledge, we created an application that was a mix of standard and custom components. We added some visual enhancements through our widget's renderer, but also created further customization by defining a custom theme. Through the code in this chapter, we learned how to customize individual elements and widgets, as well as how to make visual changes that apply across custom and standard widgets, using the theme API.

This brings us to the end of our exploration of the Fyne toolkit APIs and their functionality. In the following chapters, we will see how to create and manage GUI applications and how...

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