Re:Ask HN: What framework for a cross-platform menu-bar app?
by snazz on Monday November 05, 2018 @12:26PM
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If the app is pretty simple, you could get away with writing it natively for each platform instead of worrying about making one version cross-platform. This way it will look native on every platform and it shouldn’t be significantly more work, assuming your app is fairly simple.
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Re:Ask HN: What framework for a cross-platform menu-bar app?
by jakobegger on Monday November 05, 2018 @02:44PM
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I concur! Menu bar apps behave differently on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Trying to use a cross platform solution is just going to result in 3 crappy apps.
Building a simple menu bar app for the Mac in Swift can be accomplished in a weekend (if you have no prior experience). If you need help with that, email me and I can give you a few tips.
If your app does more complicated things, you might want to write some shared framework in C++ that does the heavy lifting, but even then the UI should be written using native libraries.