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Welcome to the Wiki, a place for comprehensive documentation on the LibGDX API and features. This wiki is community driven, and can be edited by anyone. If you find information out of date, feel free to update yourself, or ask for clarification on the official discord or the irc channel.

Official documentation

If you want to get started coding with LibGDX, head to the Official documentation - here - to learn how to setup your environment and create/import your project.

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• Wiki Style Guide
• Developer's Guide
  • The Application Framework
    • The Life-Cycle
    • Modules Overview
    • Starter Classes and 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 and 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 and Writing JSON
    • Reading and Writing XML
    • Collections
    • Reflection
    • jnigen
  • Math Utilities
    • Interpolation
    • Vectors, Matrices, Quaternions
    • Circles, Planes, Rays, etc.
    • Path Interface and Splines
    • Bounding Volumes ??
    • Intersection & Overlap Testing ??
  • Tools
    • Texture Packer
    • Hiero
    • 2D Particle Editor
    • Path 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 Services
    • AdMob in libGDX
    • Airpush in libGDX
    • Swarm in libGDX
    • NextPeer in libGDX
    • Google Play Games Services in libGDX
    • ProGuard/DexGuard and libGDX
    • Excelsior JET and libGDX
• Game Jams
  • Regular libGDX Jams
  • The historic #libGDXJAM
• Articles
  • Getting Help
  • External Tutorials
  • Deploying your application
  • HTML5 Backend and GWT Specifics
  • Coordinate systems
  • 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