Running and packaging the game

The project uses a Gradle wrapper so there is no need to install Gradle locally in order to build, run or package the project. The only requirement is to have installed Java Development Kit 7+ (JDK) and Android SDK.

In the table, you can find some of the commonly used Gradle commands. More on Gradle and Libgdx, can be found here.

Command	Description
gradlew build	Build the project
gradlew desktop:run	Runs the desktop version of the game
gradlew desktop:dist	Packages a JAR file of the desktop game
gradlew desktop:launch4j	Creates an exe file from the desktop game
gradlew test	Runs unit tests on the core project
gradlew testScoverage	Executes all tests and creates Scoverage XML report with information about code coverage
gradlew reportScoverage	Generates test coverage reports
gradlew checkScoverage	Checks whether or not the unit test line and branch coverage are met