Video tutorials

Here you can find a series of video tutorials on libgdx. I'd suggest watching them in order. The developed source code will be available in SVN shortly.

warning: these videos are old and out of date.

A Gentle Introduction to Libgdx

Learn how to setup a libgdx project for the desktop and Android.

Libgdx Tutorial #1 - Application, ApplicationListener and Life-Cycle

Learn about the basic application life-cycle of a libgdx application.

Libgdx Tutorial #2 - Basic File I/O

Learn about basic file input and output, using the abstraction provided by libgdx.

Libgdx Tutorial #3 - Basic Audio

Learn how to playback music and sound effects with libgdx.

Libgdx Remote

Fun with Gdx Remote (search on the Android Market for a compiled binary).

Android Game Development Series

Series on creating android games using libgdx.

Wiki Style Guide
Developer's Guide
- Introduction
  - Goals & Features
  - Community & Support
  - Contributing
  - Games Built With libGDX
- Setting up your Development Environment (Eclipse, Android Studio, Intellij IDEA, NetBeans)
- Creating, Running, Debugging and Packaging Your Project
  - Eclipse
  - Android Studio and Intellij IDEA
  - NetBeans
  - Commandline
  - Updating Your libGDX Version
  - Adding Extensions and 3rd Party Libraries
  - Publishing Your Own Extensions Via the Setup Application
  - Improving Your Gradle Workflow
  - Creating Asset Project in Eclipse
  - Deploying your application
- Working From Source
  - Running Demos
  - Running Tests
  - Building libGDX From Source
- The Application Framework
  - The Life-Cycle
  - Modules Overview
  - Starter Classes & Configuration
  - Querying
  - Logging
  - Threading
  - Interfacing With Platform-Specific Code
- A Simple Game
  - Extending the Simple Game
- File Handling
- Networking
- Preferences
- Input Handling
  - Configuration & Querying
  - Mouse, Touch & Keyboard * Polling * Event Handling
  - Controllers
  - Gesture Detection
  - Simple Text Input
  - Accelerometer
  - Compass
  - Gyroscope
  - Vibrator
  - Cursor Visibility & Catching
  - Back and Menu Key Catching
  - On-Screen Keyboard
- Memory Management
- Audio
  - Sound Effects
  - Streaming Music
  - Playing PCM Audio
  - Recording PCM Audio
- Graphics
  - Querying & configuring graphics (monitors, display modes, vsync)
  - Continuous & Non-Continuous Rendering
  - Clearing the Screen
  - Taking a Screenshot
  - Profiling
  - Viewports
  - OpenGL ES Support * Configuration & Querying OpenGL ?? * Direct Access ?? * Utility Classes * Rendering Shapes * Textures & TextureRegions * Meshes * Shaders * Frame Buffer Objects
  - 2D Graphics * SpriteBatch, TextureRegions, and Sprites * 2D Animation * Clipping, With the Use of ScissorStack * Orthographic Camera * Mapping Touch Coordinates ?? * NinePatches * Bitmap Fonts * Distance Field Fonts * Color Markup Language * Using TextureAtlases * Pixmaps * Packing Atlases Offline * Packing Atlases at Runtime * Texture Compression * 2D ParticleEffects * Tile Maps * scene2d * scene2d.ui * Table * Skin
  - 3D Graphics * Quick Start * Models * Material and Environment * ModelBatch * ModelCache * ModelBuilder, MeshBuilder and MeshPartBuilder * 3D Animations and Skinning * Importing Blender Models in libGDX * 3D Particle Effects * Perspective Camera ?? * Picking ??
- Managing Your Assets
- Internationalization and Localization
- Utilities
  - Reading & Writing JSON
  - Reading & Writing XML
  - Collections
  - Reflection
  - jnigen
- Math Utilities
  - Interpolation
  - Vectors, Matrices, Quaternions
  - Circles, Planes, Rays, etc.
  - Path Interface & Splines
  - Bounding Volumes ??
  - Intersection & Overlap Testing ??
- Tools
  - Texture Packer
  - Hiero
  - 2D Particle Editor
- Extensions
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - gdx-freetype
  - gdx-pay: cross-platform In-App-Purchasing API
  - Physics * Box2D
    * Bullet Physics * Setup * Using the Wrapper * Using Models * Contact Callbacks * Custom Classes * Debugging
- Using libGDX With Other JVM Languages
  - Using libGDX With Clojure
  - Using libGDX With Kotlin
  - Using libGDX With Python
  - Using libGDX With Scala
- Third Party Extensions
  - Overlap2D
  - VisUI
  - VisRuntime
  - libgdx-utils
  - libgdx-utils-box2d
  - gdx-facebook
  - gdx-dialogs
  - gdx-kiwi
  - gdx-lml
- Third Party Services
  - AdMob in libGDX
  - Airpush in libGDX
  - Swarm in libGDX
  - NextPeer in libGDX
  - Google Play Game Services in libGDX
  - ProGuard/DexGuard and libGDX
  - Excelsior JET and libGDX
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