LibGDX 2D Tutorial #1: Setting up Eclipse, Gradle and Android SDK

Hello world, welcome to the new tutorial series! this episode is kind of boring but come back next week and we will begin talking about image loading and basic player movement.

[Clumsyparadox]

5 Years Later and this is still useful, only a couple months into learning java using android studio. Eclipse seems like it has so much more functionality and I really like the framework provided with libgdx, would love to see an updated tutorial/more content if possible :D

[HollowBit]

QUESTION: What is a good length for a tutorial video? Longer videos can cover more but could become too long to watch. Please leave a comment on a good video size. Also remember that tutorials only come out once a week.

[hamamathivha]

Thank you much for the
You're a really good teacher. I literally went through 5 other tutorials without my program running : (
But you made clear and easy to follow.
You're a legend.

[HollowBit]

40 likes and 3000 views! Awesome. Thanks everyone :)

[ericmaher]

I've just decided my programming days are officially over. :b

[bruhanm]

20 mins seems about right. After all we are interested in this stuff.

[CandorZofain]

I believe that the length of the video isn't as important as the content. By that I mean moving at a fast, but easy-to-follow, pace and covering all the important information and explanations of why things happen that we will need to know.

[iProgramInCpp]

Why do we need Android SDK if you are using it for Windows?

[thefloppybird]

I think most of us could agree on 20 min videos.

[junhosung]

I know that this comment is quite late considering when the video came out, but I have a question. How do we move a project from a computer to another? I tried copying the files in the game folder from a windows computer and pasting it in another mac computer, then importing the folder as "existing gradle project". But I get all sorts of errors. Please help! Thanks.

[pablo.m]

I am very late to this lol but is this tutorial still ok for 2021?

[appukumar]

hello sir ... is there draw bubble row and col-wise like bubble shoot game through tilemap . is this possible?

[victornecromancer]

Hello, I was wondering if these tutorials are still good for someone who wants to learn in 2018

[magmahrtz]

HallowBit, I have an issue ; when i try to export the game to desktop or android the game doesn't work, didn't update the code since your 15 episode ; the issue is this?? I didn't update the code becouse when I do that the game's screen size is going crazy .

[jakubpustulka]

Can you use Vs code instead of eclipse for libGDX?

[noonansean]

As long is necessary or even more. What really matters more is that it's informative. Be concise if possible but I'd much rather watch a 2 hour tutorial that's highly informative, useful, and packed with information rather than some snappy 5 min lazily coded and poorly covering just the bare minimum series where when all is said and done I don't feel as if I've learned much more than the ability to feel more familiarized with the topic. I'd say let the topic determine the time, like it's about homogeneous coordinate systems or something give it the time it deserves. Just my opinion. But the more information, the more detail, the better. This will also help for this tutorial to stand out above some or many of the others which barely cover basics.

[spider]

the sdk only download isnt available just the tools_r file

[awn-exotic]

Couldn't find file badlogic.jpg *Error SOLUTION!*

Video summarised:
Eclipse: Run>Run tab>WorkingDirectory section >tick 'Other'>WorkSpace button>Select 'Assets folder' from either the "Android Folder" or "Core Folder" (depending on how you set up LibGDX)>Apply