Understanding the application lifecycle of LibGDX

With a better understanding of the core modules included with LibGDX, we can now look at the application lifecycle of a typical game written with LibGDX for the desktop illustrated by the following figure (Figure 6):

Understanding the application lifecycle of LibGDX

Figure 6

This diagram represents the cycle of your game loop, where one loop through the logic represents a frame. The following steps outline the various paths through the game loop in this figure:

  1. The LwjglApplication class will bootstrap itself with your starter class instance and the configuration that was passed into its constructor. The LwjglApplication constructor will instantiate ...

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