Synchronizing GitLab with a(Windows) PC Once you have a GitLab server up and running, you will need to be able to load and save your repositories to it. Since I have a repository already locally, the first step is to suncrozie my GitLab server with a local copy of my […]
JUnit can be setup within Android Studio with very little effort. In the end, I only had to add three lines to my build.gradle file and create a simple test class. Now my libGDX game has a testing framework that I can expand as it gets more complex. As always, […]
Problem: My current App is called “Shapes!” but I want to change it to something like “Bubbles”. Solution: Move and Rename ALL of the files with a reference to “Shapes.” This ended up being more complex than I thought because I wanted to keep my git history. Because of this, […]
Sprite Sheets save fair amount of memory and CPU usage. In my future world, I can also use them later to create different monsters, levels, etc. using the same graphics with different color pallets. As I get closer to production code, I feel this is one of the last items I […]
While I was working on the requirements and high level design. However, I cannot seem to stay away from forward “development.” I thought that since there is no real design in the Icons, and I need to know how to do it, I could experiment with that today and get […]
So, I have a development environment, I have a good game idea, but I have not coded in libGDX, so where do I start? Luckily, libGDX has a great website, and wiki, with demo games that will allow me to experiment… off to do so. libGDX Tutorials for Day One libGDX […]
This post details how to setup a Mobile, Cross-Platform, App Development IDE in Windows. Now that the website is up, I want to create my first App. The full set of requirements for this project can be found here. If you have not read them already, it might be […]
