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A. BaimagambetovLearn JavaFX Game and App Development https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8625-8_1

1. Introduction

Almas Baimagambetov¹  

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Brighton, East Sussex, UK

 

JavaFX is a modern high-performance graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit for Java. It provides hardware acceleration support on a range of platforms, including desktop, mobile, and embedded, allowing the development of cross-platform applications. However, to develop games with JavaFX effectively, numerous domain-specific concepts are needed. To address this need, the FXGL game engine extends JavaFX and brings support for real-world game development techniques (examples seen in Figure 1-1). ...