Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Running Eclipse and installing plugins
Great! You are almost done setting everything up. The remaining steps involve
running Eclipse for the first time and installing important plugins, which are
required to develop applications for Android, iOS, and HTML5/GWT with Eclipse.
Open Windows Explorer, and go to the location where you extracted Eclipse (here,
C:\eclipse\
), and simply run the program by double-clicking on the executable
called
eclipse
.
Eclipse will ask you to select a so-called workspace. This is the folder where all your
projects will be saved. We want to use the
C:\libgdx\
folder we created a bit earlier:
Select the
Use this as the default and do not ask again
checkbox if you don't want to
see this dialog box every time you start Eclipse. To proceed, confirm the dialog box
by clicking on the
OK
button.
The first time Eclipse is started with a new workspace, it will greet you with a
welcome screen. Simply click on the small cross (
x
) of the
Welcome
tab to close it:
You should now see the standard view of Eclipse, which is also called the
Java
Perspective
. On the left-hand side, you can see the
Package Explorer
section, as
shown in the following screenshot. This is where you will see and manage your
different projects. This is all you need to know about Eclipse for the moment.
