fyne-cross VS wormhole-gui

Using https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross makes it super simple to cross compile to other systems and architectures as well.

There may also be some hints in the Docker config that fyne-cross uses for compilation? https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross

The setup should be pretty straight forward, you just need Go and Docker (as per the docs https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross) after that you compile the downloader and it makes an app you can install like a normal native app.

I would personally say that the best option at the moment is Fyne (https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne). It provides a very easy to use interface with easy portability and cross-platform support. All applications can easily be cross-compiled using https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross and a lot of developer information exists on https://developer.fyne.io/.

I think it’s the best for Go because it manages to bring a very easy to use API and still allow for a lot of flexibility. Your app will run on all major desktop operating systems (even NetBSD and OpenBSD with the upcoming release) but also on mobiles. It doesn’t suffer from the same issues that bindings to C-libraries (like GTK and Qt) have and is also super easy to cross-compile using https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross.

Fyne is much better when it comes to cross-compiling that GTK+3 will ever be. The GTK+3 binaries are not statically linked and thus needs a lot more GTK+3 dependencies installed on the target system compared to Fyne which basically needs nothing (just a GPU driver, but you’re not very good off without one either way). Fyne also allow you to cross-compile using https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross with ease, taking care of all of the heavy lifting.

Yes. Fyne-cross has support for building for the Android target. https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross

I’d say wormhole-gui (https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui), but I might be a bit biased :)

> No, seriously. It’s so simple I thought I missed something. But no. After you run that binary, you have a fully operational node of Syncthing. It’s ready to sync with any other Syncthing node, no other setup necessary. There’s no installers, no package management (but there are packages if you want to), no registration, no email, no logins, no password creation, no 2FA, no consents, no user agreements.

The most similar experience I had to this in recent years was using a program called wormhole for peer to peer file transfer: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui

It was refreshing in a similar way; I download and open up the program, a friend does the same, and we can send files to each other, with a code genereated from the program. None of all this accounts stuff.

(For what it's worth, file sending has a similar issue as backup/sync that the author described -- most modern services are some centralized/cloud form, as opposed to the old days of ICQ/AIM/etc. where you could actually establish a direct connection to a friend and send files.)

Any reason for not just using the go mod vendor support? That was what I have planned to use in the future. Actually managed to get a working Flatpak. Could do with some tweaking, but it is generally working now :) https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/issues/23

TLDR at the bottom.

It seems the answer is Brian Warner's magic-wormhole. You're gonna see lots of file transfer sites with wormhole in their name, but if you want security you should use the original one, which is BW's m-w.

It is implemented in Python [1], so it's hard to install.

So someone made a Go version of it [2] that has binaries for windows, Mac, Linux, BSD etc. But it's command line so maybe not suitable for lay people.

So another person made a GUI for it that also has binaries for all OS [3].

Also there is an android app [4]. Someone needs to implement an iOS one.

[1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/

[2] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/

[3] https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/

[4] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile/

TLDR: ask them to install [5] and [6].

[5] https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/releases/

(click on 'Assets' under 'Latest release' and download the zip or tar.gz for your OS)

[6] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor...

Try it, it's usage is cute and really feels like magic.

It seems like there’s already a GUI version. If you still want to make your own, go for it, but I figured I’d mention this in case you hadn’t seen it.