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Building Cross-Platform GUI Applications with Fyne

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Published in Jan 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800563162

Pages 318 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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GUI Application Development

Author (1):

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

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Appendix A: Developer Tool Installation

Appendix B: Installing Mobile Build Tools

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...

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Authors (1)

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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