Best way to make a Game Menu ?

[albarazer]

I've been looking for quite some time now to how I should make a nice graphical ui.
I searched and found that many people all do it in a different way, like a Stage with Sprites for buttons, Scene2dUI, TWL (btw where did the gdx-twl.jar backend go?), and even Android's 9patch images. I'm quite lost now on which way to go, and how to start implementing it.

I'd like to create a menu similar to most "quality" Android games or flash games, with just basic Buttons and Textviews (optionally an animated background).

What is the most recent/prefered way to do this?

Thanks.

[Mats]

I'm very happy with scene2dUI in combination with tablelayouts.

[bach]

I've been looking for quite some time now to how I should make a nice graphical ui.
I searched and found that many people all do it in a different way, like a Stage with Sprites for buttons, Scene2dUI, TWL (btw where did the gdx-twl.jar backend go?), and even Android's 9patch images. I'm quite lost now on which way to go, and how to start implementing it.

I'd like to create a menu similar to most "quality" Android games or flash games, with just basic Buttons and Textviews (optionally an animated background).

What is the most recent/prefered way to do this?

Thanks.

The reason why everyone mentions something else is because there are many ways to achieve the same thing

Try a few different methods and see what suits the situation best. Scene2d definitely has a few useful tools for UI development. However a simple button does not require you to use a scene and can be achieved with a few lines of code instead.

Bottom line: Use what fits the situation best

[Obli]

I totally agree with bach. Everyone create menus differently. So go for scene2d, others for scene2d.ui, and the rest only use sprites.

[albarazer]

I totally agree with bach. Everyone create menus differently. So go for scene2d, others for scene2d.ui, and the rest only use sprites.

Ok I'll go for scene2d.ui then, it looks good
But with for example a Button, I can choose a constructor with Skin, or ninePatch (and others), which one should I use?
NinePatch are just some images I can easilly make with Android's draw9patch.exe, but Skin seems to be very complicated.

Skin somehow looks like the way to go, but I guess there's no editor for it, and writing everything in JSON (?) is quite difficult for ui.

[Mats]

http://code.google.com/p/libgdx-users/wiki/Skins

I recommend skin. It makes it easy to skin your entire application. However, you may as well just create an individual style and use it for your button, if you don't plan to skin/style your entire app.