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Learning LibGDX Game Development- Second Edition

You're reading from   Learning LibGDX Game Development- Second Edition Wield the power of the LibGDX framework to create a cross-platform game

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783554775
Length 478 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Suryakumar B Nair Suryakumar B Nair
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Andreas Oehlke Andreas Oehlke
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to LibGDX and Project Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Cross-platform Development – Build Once, Deploy Anywhere 3. Configuring the Game 4. Gathering Resources 5. Making a Scene 6. Adding the Actors 7. Menus and Options 8. Special Effects 9. Screen Transitions 10. Managing the Music and Sound Effects 11. Advanced Programming Techniques 12. Animations 13. Basic 3D Programming 14. Bullet Physics Index

The demo application – how the projects work together

In Chapter 1, Introduction to LibGDX and Project Setup, we successfully created our demo application, but we did not look at how all the Eclipse projects work together. Take a look at the following figure to understand and familiarize yourself with the configuration pattern that all your LibGDX applications will have in common:

The demo application – how the projects work together

What you see here is a compact view of four projects. The demo project to the very left contains the shared code that is referenced (added to the build path) by all other platform-specific projects. The main class of the demo application is MyDemo.java. However, there is a different main class where an application gets started by the operating system, which will be referred to as starter classes from now on. Notice that LibGDX uses the term starter class to distinguish between these two types of main classes in order to avoid confusion. We will cover everything related to the topic of starter classes later...

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