Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go

Discover Golang’s GUI libraries and learn to build Beautiful, Performant, and Responsive Graphical Applications.

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Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go

Andrew Williams

April 2019

Discover Golang’s GUI libraries and learn to build Beautiful, Performant, and Responsive Graphical Applications.

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Book Details

ISBN 139781789138412

Paperback482 pages

Book Description

Go is often compared to C++ for low level programming and implementations that include faster processing, like GUIs. In fact it has been acclaimed to be better than C++ in terms of its concurrency and ease of use.

This book will show Go developers all they need to know about building beautiful and responsive GUIs in Go. Beginning with an introduction to some great libraries like andlabs ui, walk and gxui, the book will practically show you all the aspects of building beautiful and responsive GUI apps in Go.

By the end, you will be a confident GUI application developer.

What You Will Learn

The benefits and complexities of building native graphical applications
How the Go language makes cross-platform application development realistic and efficient
How to build platform native GUI applications using andlabs UI
How to build graphical Windows applications using Walk
How to build cross-platform GUI applications using GXUI, Shiny, and Fyne
How to use Go wrappers for GTK and Qt for GUI application development
Consider application and user requirements to pick the right platform/toolkit strategy

Authors

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 the CTO of many software start-up businesses ranging from 0 to 70 staff, balancing early stage product development and technical leadership. After 6 years of growing an award-winning mobile app development company, he is now applying the lessons learned to cross-platform desktop applications using Go. Andrew is passionate about building tools and services that make software development simpler, improve productivity and make it easier for aspiring software engineers to get started.