v2.4 bumper release

We are excited to announce the bumper v2.4.0 release - later than we hoped, but well worth the delay. With the introduction of rounded rectangles we have updated the look and feel to remove a lot of the sharp corners, Smoother edges to input and buttons primarily make the UI feel a lot more friendly. Check out the full release below and let us know what you think :)

Added features

We have some great new features for your app like rounded rectangles, emoji support in text, a new GridWrap collection widget, truncation with ellipses and support for layout debugging as well (use -tags debug).

Enjoj this great new release !.

The complete list of new additions is as follows:

Rounded corners in rectangle (#1090)
Support for emoji in text
Layout debugging (with -tags debug build flag) (#3314)
GridWrap collection widget
Add table headers (#1658, #3594)
Add mobile back button handling (#2910)
Add option to disable UI animations (#1813)
Text truncation ellipsis (#1659)
Add support for binding tree data, include new NewTreeWithData
Add support for OpenType fonts (#3245)
Add Window.SetOnDropped to handle window-wide item drop on desktop
Add lists to the types supported by preferences API
Keyboard focus handling for all collection widgets
Add APIs for refreshing individual items in collections (#3826)
Tapping slider moves it to that position (#3650)
Add OnChangeEnded callback to Slider (#3652)
Added keyboard controls to Slider
Add NewWarningThemedResource and NewSuccessThemedResource along with NewColoredResource (#4040)
Custom hyperlink callback for rich text hyperlinks (#3335)
Added dialog.NewCustomWithoutButtons, with a SetButtons method (#2127, #2782)
Added SetConfirmImportance to dialog.ConfirmDialog.
Added FormDialog.Submit() to close and submit the dialog if validation passes
Rich Text image alignment (#3810)
Bring back theme.HyperlinkColor (#3867)
Added Importance field on Label to color the text
Navigating in entry quickly with ctrl key (#2462)
Support .desktop file metadata in FyneApp.toml for Linux and BSD
Support mobile simulator on FreeBSD
Add data binding boolean operators Not, And and Or
Added Entry.Append, Select.SetOptions, Check.SetText, FormDialog.Submit
Add ShowPopUpAtRelativePosition and PopUp.ShowAtRelativePosition
Add desktop support to get key modifiers with CurrentKeyModifiers
Add geometry helpers NewSquareSize and NewSquareOffsetPos
Add --pprof option to fyne build commands to enable profiling
Support compiling from Android (termux)

Changed

The following items have changed as well, most notably you’ll need to be using Go 1.17 at least going forward.

Go 1.17 or later is now required.
Theme updated for rounded corners on buttons and input widgets
widget.ButtonImportance is now widget.Importance
The Max container and layout have been renamed Stack for clarity
Refreshing an image will now happen in app-thread not render process, apps may wish to add async image load
Icons for macOS bundles are now padded and rounded, disable with “-use-raw-icon” (#3752)
Update Android target SDK to 33 for Play Store releases
Focus handling for List/Tree/Table are now at the parent widget not child elements
Accordion widget now fills available space - put it inside a VBox container for old behavior (#4126)
Deprecated theme.FyneLogo() for later removal (#3296)
Improve look of menu shortcuts (#2722)
iOS and macOS packages now default to using “XCWildcard” provisioning profile
Improving performance of lookup for theme data
Improved application startup time