Learning Libgdx Game Development

Building the scene for the menu screen

We will now begin with the actual implementation of the scene for the menu screen. First, take a look at the following diagram that shows the hierarchy of the UI scene graph that we are going to build step-by-step:

The scene graph starts with an empty Stage. Then, the first child actor added to the stage is a Stack widget. A Stack widget allows you to add actors that can overlay other actors. We will make use of this ability to create several layers. Each layer uses a Table widget as its parent actor. Using stacked tables enables us to layout actors in an easy and logical way.

In the first step we will add the ...