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Welcome to our Wiki, a place for comprehensive documentation on the libGDX API and features. This wiki is community driven, and can be edited by anyone. If you find information out of date or want to add some more in-depth explanations, you are very welcome to do the necessary changes after having had a look at our Wiki Style Guide.

Getting Started

If you want to get started coding with libGDX, head to the Official documentation - here - to learn how to setup your environment and create/import your project.

Developer's Guide

The Application Framework
File Handling
Networking
Preferences
Input Handling
Memory Management
Audio
Graphics
- Querying and Configuring Graphics (monitors, display modes, vsync, display cutouts)
- Continuous and Non-Continuous Rendering
- Clearing the Screen
- Taking a Screenshot
- Profiling
- Viewports
- OpenGL (ES) Support
  - Configuration and Querying OpenGL ??
  - Direct Access ??
  - Utility Classes
- 2D Graphics
  - SpriteBatch, TextureRegions, and Sprites
  - 2D Animation
  - Clipping, With the Use of ScissorStack
  - Orthographic Camera
  - Mapping Touch Coordinates ??
  - NinePatches
  - Bitmap Fonts
    - Distance Field Fonts
    - Color Markup Language
  - Using TextureAtlases
  - Pixmaps
  - Packing Atlases Offline
  - Packing Atlases at Runtime
  - Texture Compression
  - 2D ParticleEffects
  - Tile Maps
  - scene2d
    - scene2d.ui
      - Table
    - Skin
  - ImGui
- 3D Graphics
  - Quick Start
  - Models
  - Material and Environment
  - ModelBatch
  - ModelCache
  - ModelBuilder, MeshBuilder and MeshPartBuilder
  - 3D Animations and Skinning
  - Importing Blender Models in libGDX
  - 3D Particle Effects
  - Virtual Reality (VR)
  - 3D Picking
  - Perspective Camera ??
Managing Your Assets
HTML5 Backend and GWT Specifics
Internationalization and Localization
Utilities
Math Utilities
- Interpolation
- Vectors, Matrices, Quaternions
- Circles, Planes, Rays, etc.
- Path Interface and Splines
- Bounding Volumes ??
- Intersection and Overlap Testing ??
Tools
Extensions
- Artificial Intelligence
- gdx-freetype
- gdx-pay: cross-platform In-App-Purchasing API
- Physics
  - Box2D
  - Bullet Physics
- Publishing Your Own Extensions
Using libGDX With Other JVM Languages
Third Party Services

Articles

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