libGDX: Installation And Setup for Android Studio on a Linux Box

libGDX: Installation And Setup for Android Studio on a Linux Box

In this video I will show you how to install and configure libGDX on Linux, which is a Java game framework for Android, and get it working with Android Studio.

Well, technically it also works on iOS, Desktop and web, but since this is an Android channel we are covering the Android side of things.

The process involves downloading the libGDX installer, and then using their project generator to create a libGDX project, and then importing that project into Android Studio.

Note that Android studio will take some time to process the project the first time, thats normal. Just leaving it chugging away, and go make a coffee while it does it’s thing.

I have also got you covered with other platforms.

Watch this video to see the installation and configuration process on Mac

And watch this video to see the installation and configuration process on Windows

Enjoy the content!

Cheers

Tim Buchalka
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[cameronalexander]

One of the best tutorials on a tedious, boring, application specific topic I've ever encountered.  Nice pace, nice explanations.  Well done!

[TadhgDS]

Great video! Well articulated and with a nice pace

[julianzuloaga]

thank you! this is working great in 2020!

[jeffm]

Woot! Now I can build games! Thanks for the tutorial.

[ordnaelsusej]

Your font is so smooth, I like it. Does Ubuntu already come with this font or you tweak it?

[ibrahimgunduz]

Really great. but unfortunnafelly i received an error.
i created a project. and opened android studio. File>new>import project
and i choosed my project. :(
21:25:32 ExternalSystemException: Unable to save (access is denied)

[Luckelucke]

you are good. very good explain. thanks amigo

[jamesogletree]

Tim, great video. I have Android Studio setup on Manjaro linux kde. I checked yaourt and libgdx is available for installation. After I install libgdx using yaourt, what should I do next to incorporated it into android studio? I am running Android studio 2.3. Thanks, Jim

[TheLearnProgrammingChannel]

@ibrahim gündüz I cannot reply to you because of the way you have your a/c setup.

Check ownership of that folder on your computer, it seems that you dont have access to that folder for writing.  Either that or local.properties is opened by another process on your computer.

[alexarchangel]

Can't install libgdx its giving this error:"Error couldn't find or load main class" help

[IslandCave]

When I try to get this set up, I get "Cannot create directory <path>/.idea

[WaleedAkleh]

if double click doesn't work for you just make the gdx-setup.jar files executable:
chmod +x gdx-setup.jar

[Schadenfreude]

Just download the file, go into downloads from terminal and run $ java -jar ./gdx-setup_latest.jar
This'll work.