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Williams, Andrew. Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go: Build Responsive, Cross-Platform, Graphical Applications with the Go Programming Language. — Birmingham: Packt Publishing Ltd, 2019. — 1 online resource (432 pages). — Object model and event handling. — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/2035757.pdf>.

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Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go will help you to extend your knowledge of Golang and become a confident graphical application developer with Go. The book explores many graphical libraries available for Go to show how GUIs can be created for applications. This book is a guide to the most popular Go GUI Frameworks and techniques.

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Graphical User Interface Development
Chapter 1: The Benefits of Native Graphical Applications
- Return of the graphical application
  - Personal computers
  - From desktop to internet
  - Smart phones, apps, and customer retention
- Native performance
- Integrated user experience
- Reliability and offline functionality
- Maintainability and testing
- Summary
Chapter 2: Graphical User Interface Challenges
- Standard look and feel or app theme
- GUIs and visual hierarchy
  - Multiple documents
  - Accessory windows
  - Visual hierarchy
  - Mobile standards
- Concurrency and multi-threading
  - Switching threads
  - Avoiding complexity
- Web services and cloud integration
  - Communications
  - Data parsing
  - Standard components
- Developing for multiple platforms
  - Cross-platform APIs
  - Icons and design
  - Testing
- Packaging and distribution
- Summary
Chapter 3: Go to the Rescue!
- Introduction
- Cross-platform for any application
  - Cross-compiling
  - Standard library
- Concurrency in language design
  - Goroutines
  - Channels
  - The sync package
- Web services included as standard
- Choosing your look and feel
- Summary
Section 2: Toolkits Using Existing Widgets
Chapter 4: Walk - Building Graphical Windows Applications
- Background and aims
- Get started with walk
  - Setup
  - Code
  - Build
  - Run
- Benefits of a declarative API
  - Compared with the native API
  - Using both APIs for flexibility
- Building a user interface
  - Style
  - Layout
  - Toolbar and menu
  - Communicating with the GUI
    - View model
    - Detail view
    - List view
  - Background processing
- Walk in a cross-platform application
- Summary
Chapter 5: andlabs UI - Cross-platform Native UIs
- Background and history
- Getting started with andlabs UI
  - Prerequisites
    - Microsoft windows
    - macOS
    - Linux
  - Setup
    - Rebuilding the UI library (workaround)
  - Code
  - Build
  - Run
- Generic API for multiple platforms
  - Controls
    - Box
    - Containers
    - Widgets
    - Menu
  - Area and drawing
- Building a user interface
  - Style
  - Layout
    - Main email window
    - Email compose dialog
  - Toolbar and menu
  - Communicating with the GUI
  - Background processing
    - Example
- Challenges with multiple native GUIs
  - Consistent style
    - Brand styles
    - User experience
  - Testing
  - Cross-compilation
    - Building for Linux on macOS or windows
      - macOS
      - Windows
    - Building for windows on Linux or macOS
    - Building for macOS on Linux or Windows
    - A better solution
- Summary
Chapter 6: Go-GTK - Multiple Platforms with GTK
- GTK+ background
- Getting started with Go-GTK
  - Prerequisites
    - Installing GTK+
      - macOS
      - Windows
      - Linux
    - Install Go-GTK
  - Build
  - Run
- Signals and namespaces
  - Signals
  - Passing data
  - Namespaces
- Sample application
  - Layout
  - Compose layout
  - Signaling
  - Thread handling
  - Cross compilation
- Theming
- Summary
Chapter 7: Go-Qt - Multiple Platforms with Qt
- Qt background
- Getting started with therecipe/qt
  - Prerequisites
    - Preparing CGo
    - Installing Qt
      - macOS
      - Windows
      - Linux
      - License / Qt account
    - Installing qt (the bindings)
  - Build
  - Run
- Object model and event handling
  - Inheritance
  - Memory management
  - Signals and slots
- Sample application
  - Layout
  - The compose layout
  - Signalling
  - Thread handling
  - Cross-compilation
- Theming
- Summary
Section 3: Modern Graphical Toolkits
Chapter 8: Shiny - Experimental Go GUI API
- Background and the vision for Shiny
- Design and supported platforms
  - Architecture
    - Lower layer
    - Higher layer
  - Supported platforms
  - Drivers currently included
- Getting started with Shiny
  - Setup
  - Example
  - Cross-compiling
    - Cross-compiling for macOS
- Widgets and material design
  - Design
  - Icons
  - Themes
  - Widgets
- Getting started continued
  - Code
  - Supporting code
  - Build and Run
- Building a user interface
  - Design
  - Layout
  - Navigation
  - File list
  - Image view
  - Communicating with the GUI
  - Background processing
- Summary
Chapter 9: nk - Nuklear for Go
- Background and design of Nuklear
- Rendering and platform support
  - Rendering modules
  - Supported platforms
- Getting started with nk
  - Prerequisites
    - Linux
    - macOS and Windows
    - Android
  - Setup
  - Example
  - Code
  - Build and run
  - Cross-compiling
- Widgets, layout, and skinning
  - Widgets
  - Layout
    - NkLayoutRow
    - NkLayoutRowTemplate
    - NkLayoutSpace
  - Drawing
    - Command queue
    - Draw functions
  - Skinning
  - Layout
    - Main email window
    - Email compose dialog
  - Toolbar and menu
  - Communicating with the GUI
  - Background processing
- Summary
Chapter 10: Fyne - Material Design-Based GUI
- Background and vision for Fyne
- Getting started with Fyne
  - Prerequisites
    - Linux
    - macOS
  - Setup
  - Example
  - Code
  - Build and run
  - Cross compiling
- Rendering and vector graphics
  - Vector graphics
  - Drivers
  - Supported platforms
- Canvas, widgets, and layouts
  - Canvas (drawing)
  - Layout
  - Widgets
  - Themes
    - Packaged themes
- Building a user interface
  - Layout
    - Main email window
    - Compose dialog
  - Toolbar and menu
  - Communicating with the GUI
    - Loading emails
    - Sending email
  - Background processing
- Building an image viewer
  - Layout
  - Navigation
  - File listing
  - Image view
  - Communicating with the GUI
  - Background processing
- Summary
Section 4: Growing and Distributing Your Application
Chapter 11: Navigation and Multiple Windows
- Planning application layout
  - Standard layouts
  - Device form factors
  - Responsive or adaptive design
  - Custom layouts
- Navigating your application
  - Progressive disclosure
    - Example 1 – Microsoft Edge
    - Example 2 – Skyscanner flight search
  - Menus and toolbars
    - Toolbar
    - Menu
  - Multiple windows
- Window types and keeping things clean
  - Standard dialogs
  - Modal windows
  - Window hints
    - Sizes
    - Other hints
- Notifications and task status
  - Minor alerts
  - Background progress
- Platform-specific considerations
  - Window grouping
  - Application instances
  - Extra features
- Summary
Chapter 12: Concurrency, Networking, and Cloud Services
- Concurrency, threads, and GUI updates
  - Managing long-running processes
    - Signaling shutdown
    - Checking completion
  - Communicating through channels
  - Graphical updates from goroutines
- Network resources and caching
  - Loading remote resources
    - Images
    - JSON
  - Caching resource data
- Connecting to cloud services
  - Encoding
    - JSON
    - XML
  - Authentication – OAuth 2.0
    - First request
    - Storing tokens
  - Posting data
  - GUI integration
    - Incoming messages
    - Activity notifications
      - Spinner
      - Status panel
- Consistent user experience when offline
  - Caching responses
  - Queuing actions
  - Starting offline
- Summary
Chapter 13: Best Practices in Go GUI Development
- Separation of concerns
  - Suggested application structure
- Test-driving UI development
  - Designed to be testable
  - Example application test
- Continuous integration for GUIs
  - Approaches to GUI test automation
  - Avoiding external dependencies
- Managing platform specifics
- Summary
Chapter 14: Distributing Your Application
- Metadata and icons
  - Application icon
  - Describing your app
- Bundling assets
  - go-bindata
  - packr
  - rsrc
  - fyne bundle
- Building a release
  - Preparing
    - Compiler installation
  - Building
  - Packaging
    - Linux
      - Create metadata files
      - Packaging release
    - macOS
      - Creating metadata files
      - Packaging release
    - Windows
      - Creating metadata files
      - Packaging release
    - Cross-platform packaging tools
      - fyne package
- Distributing to platform marketplaces
  - Mac App Store
    - Packaging
    - Uploading
    - Reviewing
  - Microsoft Store
    - Packaging
    - Uploading
    - Reviewing
  - Linux package manager
    - Debian (.deb)
      - Packaging
      - Distribution
    - Red Hat (.rpm)
      - Packaging
      - Distribution
    - Tarball (.tar.gz)
      - Arch Linux
      - Gentoo Linux
      - Others
    - Containers
- Summary
Installation Details
- Installing Go
  - Microsoft Windows
    - Git
    - Go
    - Environment
  - Apple macOS
  - Linux
- Setting up Cgo
  - Microsoft Windows
  - Apple macOS
  - Linux
Cross Compiler Setup
- Cross compiling for macOS with CGo
  - To macOS from Linux or Windows
- Cross compiling for Windows with CGo
  - To Windows from macOS
  - To Windows from Linux
- Cross compiling for Linux with CGo
  - To Linux from macOS
  - To Linux from Windows
Comparison of GUI Toolkits
Connecting GoMail to a Real Email Server
- Download Gmail credentials
- Creating a server provider
  - Downloading inbox messages
  - Sending messages
  - Listening for new messages
- Updating an example to use Gmail
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