Getting the AndEngine libraries
AndEngine is an open source game engine and the sources are licensed under Apache License Version 2.0. This not only allows us to use AndEngine in both free and commercial games, but it also gives us a chance to inspect or alter the source code. The old way of adding AndEngine to an Android application was to add compiled Java ARchive (JAR) files to your app. This is no longer necessary as you can add AndEngine as a library project.
The author of AndEngine, Nicolas Gramlich, decided to store the whole engine inside GitHub. Git is a version control system (VCS) for source codes and GitHub is a hosting website for Git repositories. A VCS allows you to not only store your sources, but also to store every version of ...
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