Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go

Mobile standards

Mobile applications pose a different design challenge: how to make a great user experience on a far smaller screen when the main input device is a touch screen where your fingers may obscure content. The companies behind the major mobile operating systems (Apple, Google, and Microsoft) spent many years developing a visual language and standard interactions that provided a smooth flow through increasingly complicated applications. As previously with web applications, it was important that native mobile applications behave in a consistent manner for users to quickly learn and feel comfortable with these new platforms. iOS, Android, and Windows Phone provide standard APIs that developers can use to create applications that fit ...