Video Introduction to libgdx

[mzechner]

Hi,

watch this please, it guides you through the process of setting up a libgdx application.

http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/getstarted.html

Enjoy.

[loneboat]

Thanks for the tutorial - helped me get started! Also, I just finished the book and enjoyed it thoroughly.

Side note though - I was a bit put off by the repeated use of the term "fuck" in the video. In America the word "fuck" is generally considered extremely offensive, and I had to turn it off because my 5-year-old was in the room. Seemed a little weird to have to send my kid out of the room so I can watch a tutorial about a game library...

Anyway, I understand opinions on this will vary. I'm still incredibly grateful for all the hard work that has gone into this framework. Thanks again for everything!

[mzechner]

In good old Europe we are a bit more relaxed about the use of words. After all, they are just words. I'll take it into account when i do another video.

[brokenjava]

After watching that video i thought to myself holy fuck thats a real peson. o wait did i just hear that yep hes lighting a cigarette. this isnt a formal dinner party its coding for fuck sakes. and yes kids can be a problem.

[mbazos]

After watching that video i thought to myself holy fuck thats a real peson. o wait did i just hear that yep hes lighting a cigarette. this isnt a formal dinner party its coding for fuck sakes. and yes kids can be a problem.

The wording isn't that bad considering 54 seconds into the video there is a file called "gaybunnyporn.rar" in the download folder, but besides that it was a good crash coarse to get up and running quickly.

[mzechner]

In good old Europe we are a bit more relaxed about our gay bunny porn. After all, it's just gay bunny porn. I'll take it into account when i do another video.

[KJohn]

Great video, love the little "easter eggs" throughout.
Slight problem running this. Got the nightly build (last night), have latest Eclipse Indigo (installed just a couple weeks ago), Win7 Pro x64, JDK 1.7, jre7.
Followed everything you did to a 'T', the desktop app works just fine, but the Android app does not. I get the following error when it tries to install the apk to the emulator:
"Could not find class 'com.awesome.SuperAwesomeExample', referenced from method com.awesome.SuperAwesomeActivity.onCreate"
"FATAL EXCEPTION: main"
"java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.awesome.SuperAwesomeExample"
"at com.awesome.SuperAwesomeActivity.onCreate(SuperAwesomeActivity.java:13)"

I went through a bunch of different options in the Project properties to ensure the superawesome project was referenced correctly, its part of the build, tried messing with the build order too, cleaned the projects (I have auto-build checked so its rebuilt on run), re-ran numerous times, still same error.

Thoughts?
I will move on to the other game tutorials, but figured this should be working especially if its a 'begining tutorial'. Thanks!

[kalle_h]

Try with JRE6 that should fix it. I have heard lots of odd behaviour relating to JRE7.

[mzechner]

Jah, Java 1.7 plus Android seem to be a bit at odds at the moment. Have your compiler for both projects target Java 1.6, that should solve it.

[KJohn]

Ah, ok, thanks. Will get 1.6 installed and let ya know.