v2.1 for RichText and DocTabs goodness :)

The v2.1.0 release represents a huge step forward since 2.0 - just as many commits as went into the v2.0.0 release! We added new widgets, a Lifecycle API, storage helpers, build metadata and lots of optimisations too. Check out the full release below and let us know what you think :)

Note that custom focusable widgets will not automatically be focussed on tap any more, you may wish to update your code so it requests focus on tapped (see https://developer.fyne.io/api/v2.1/upgrading).

Added features

We have some great new features for your app like DocTabs, CheckGroup and a new metadata file, but perhaps the coolest new feature is the RichText widget! We have included a Markdown parser that can be used to create rich text using widget.NewRichTextWithMarkdown("* Text"), this means you can really easily include rich content in your apps. It is even a simple task to make a markdown preview for an editor widget like this:

The complete list of new additions is as follows:

DocTabs container for handling multiple open files
Lifecycle API for handling foreground, background and other event
Add RichText widget and Markdown parser
Add TabWidth to TextStyle to specify tab size in spaces
Add CheckGroup widget for multi-select
Add FyneApp.toml metadata file to ease build commands
Include http and https in standard repositories
Add selection color to themes
Include baseline information in driver font measurement
Document storage API (App.Storage().Create() and others)
Add “App Files” to file dialog for apps that use document storage
Tab overflow on AppTabs
Add URI and Unbound type to data bindings
Add keyboard support for menus, pop-ups and buttons
Add SimpleRenderer to help make simple widgets
Add scroll functions for List, Table, Tree
Add selection and disabling to MenuItem
Add Alignment to widget.Select
Expose ScanCode for keyboard events originating from hardware
Support macOS GPU switching

Changed

The following items have changed and may require custom widgets or complex code to be updated accordingly.

Focusable widgets are no longer focused on tap, add canvas.Focus(obj) in Tapped handler if required
Move to background based selection for List, Table and Tree
Update fyne command line tool to use –posix style parameters
Switch from gz to xz compression for unix packages
Performance improvements with line, text and raster rendering
Items not yet visible can no longer be focused
Lines can now be drawn down to 1px (instead of 1dp)
Support multiple lines of text on button
Improved text layout speed by caching string size calculations
Updated to require Go 1.14 so we can use some new features
Window Resize request is now asynchronous
Up/Down keys take cursor home/end when on first/last lines respectively