Golang Fyne: How to compile *apk for Android | Golang Fyne tutorial

In this short Golang Fyne tutorial I’ll show you how to compile or build a Fyne application to an apk file for Android phone.

As an example of a Golang project I used the basic Hello World example from the Fyne official documentation.

The purpose of this Golang Fyne tutorial is just to show how to compile a Fyne app to an apk file to install it on an Android phone.

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Timecodes:
00:00 – beginning
01:09 – installing Android SDK and Android NDK
03:42 – installing Golang
06:07 – installing Golang Fyne framework
08:26 – installing Fyne cli tool
09:29 – adding go/bin directory to the PATH variable
10:35 – creating an icon for the Fyne app
11:26 – compiling Fyne app to *.apk

To install Android SDK on Ubuntu-base distros (I use Linux Mint):
sudo apt install android-sdk

Links:
Android NDK:
https://developer.android.com/ndk

To get the 21 version of Android NDK:
https://github.com/android/ndk/wiki/Unsupported-Downloads

Golang installation:
https://go.dev/doc/install

Golang Fyne framework:
https://developer.fyne.io/started/

Golang Fyne: How to compile Fyne app to *apk for Android | Golang Fyne tutorial
https://youtu.be/4S-AQlV1pcw

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To build an apk file using Golang Fyne you have to install appropriate tools. Fyne is a nice framework, but it’s too early to build true Android app with Fyne.

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