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Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go

You're reading from Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go Build responsive, cross-platform, graphical applications with the Go programming language

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789138412

Length 450 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

Fyne

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Andrew Williams

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. The Benefits of Native Graphical Applications FREE CHAPTER

2. Graphical User Interface Challenges

3. Go to the Rescue!

4. Walk - Building Graphical Windows Applications

5. andlabs UI - Cross-platform Native UIs

6. Go-GTK - Multiple Platforms with GTK

7. Go-Qt - Multiple Platforms with Qt

8. Shiny - Experimental Go GUI API

9. nk - Nuklear for Go

10. Fyne - Material Design-Based GUI

11. Navigation and Multiple Windows

12. Concurrency, Networking, and Cloud Services

13. Best Practices in Go GUI Development

14. Distributing Your Application

1. Installation Details

2. Cross Compiler Setup

3. Comparison of GUI Toolkits

4. Connecting GoMail to a Real Email Server

5. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

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Authors (1)

Andrew Williams

Andrew Williams

Andrew Williams has over 15 years of commercial software development experience across a variety of programming languages, including Java, C, Objective-C, and Go. He has been a core developer in large open source projects such as Enlightenment, EFL, and Maven, as well as maintaining various community websites and tutorials. Since 2007, Andrew has been working as CTO with many early-stage and growing software start-ups. After 6 years spent expanding an award-winning mobile app development company, he is now applying the lessons he has learned to cross-platform desktop applications using Go. Andrew is passionate about building tools and services that make software development simpler and improve productivity, as well as making it easier to become a great software engineer.

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