Shirei v0.6 | Judi Systems

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Today we announce the release of v0.6 of Shirei, the cross-platform Go GUI framework.

Featuring support for mobile platforms : you can now use Shirei<br>to develop cross-platform mobile apps that work on both iOS and Android from<br>the same Go codebase.

In the screenshot above, you can see an example mobile application: Hacker News<br>Reader, along with a version of the Piano example running on an iPhone.

The Hacker News Reader uses the Firebase Hacker News API to fetch<br>stories and comment threads.

The release comes with mobilerun, a dev utility to quickly run your application<br>on a mobile phone (or a simulator) without confusing configurations or cryptic commands.

Naturally, this utility was programmed in Shirei itself.

We also ship a demo demos/mobile-camera that uses an extension to access phone<br>camera and take a picture, which we also ship, under go.hasen.dev/shirei/ext/camera.

A new example desktop application has been added: git_history. Quickly browse<br>your project's history and perform search through the commit log or the commit<br>diff view. Very fast and responsive even on huge commits.

Quick summary of what's new in v0.6

iOS/Android platform support (dev mode)

Mechanism for platform extension development

Some cascading of container attributes to direct children (recursively):

Size constraints along the cross-axis: max width cascades on columns, max height on rows.

Text styles are now container attributes and they cascade.

Internal refactoring to allow measuring a view function without rendering it.

Mechanism to allow customization of default widgets look and feel.

For a full list, see the CHANGELOG.

Tutorials

In addition to the existing general tutorial, we have added:

Layout Tutorial: A step-by-step tutorial to help you understand how<br>the layout system works by building a chat app UI layout from scratch.

Custom Widgets Tutorial: Building on the tutorial, we show how to<br>customize the look and feel of the input box to look like a modern chat app<br>compose field.

Docs

Here are some reference documents for setting up the development environment to<br>support mobile app development.

Running on Android

Running on iOS

Mobile extensions

Try it

See the small demo program on the landing page and try it. Browse the tutorials,<br>try the example programs, e.g.

# Find-in-Files<br>go run go.hasen.dev/shirei/examples/haystack@v0.6.0

# Git log viewer<br>go run go.hasen.dev/shirei/examples/git_history@v0.6.0

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GitHub: hasenj/go-shirei