LibGDX backends
LibGDX makes use of several other libraries to interface the specifics of each platform in order to provide cross-platform support for your applications. Generally, a backend is what enables LibgGDX to access the corresponding platform functionalities when one of the abstracted (platform-independent) LibGDX methods is called; for example, drawing an image in the upper-left corner of the screen, playing a sound file at a volume of 80 percent, or reading and writing from/to a file.
LibGDX currently provides the following four backends:
- Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL)
- Android
- JavaScript/WebGL
- iOS/RoboVM
Lightweight Java Game Library
Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is an open source Java library originally started by Caspian Rychlik-Prince ...
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