Defold Manuals
These are per-manual files generated for LLM usage.
Getting Started
Project Setup
Editor
- Overview
- Code editor
- Custom project templates
- Editor scripts
- Editor scripts: UI
- Debugger
- Preferences
- Refactoring
- Styling
Core Concepts
Assets and Resources
- Importing assets
- Caching assets
- Importing 2D graphics
- Importing 3D models
- Adapting to different screen sizes
- Live update
- Atlas
- Buffer
- Font
- Resource management
- Tile source
- Texture filtering
- Texture compression
Animations
- Overview
- Flipbook Animation
- Model animation
- Property animation (tweens)
- Rive animation
- Spine animation
Components
- Overview
- Collection factory
- Collection proxy
- Collision object
- Camera
- Factory
- Label
- Mesh
- Model
- Particle FX
- Rive
- Sound
- Spine
- Sprite
- Tilemap
GUI
- GUI overview
- Box nodes
- Text nodes
- Pie nodes
- Spine nodes
- ParticleFX nodes
- Template nodes
- Scripts
- Clipping
- Layouts
Physics
- Physics overview
- Collision objects
- Collision shapes
- Collision groups
- Collision messages
- Collision events listener
- Resolving collisions
- Ray casts
- Joints and constraints
Sound
Input
Game logic
- Scripts
- Properties
- Script properties
- Lua in Defold
- Source code obfuscation
- Modules
- Debugging
- Writing code
Files
Network Connections
Rendering
Workflow
- Application security
- Bundling an application
- Caching assets
- Command line tools
- Hot reloading
- Porting guidelines
- Refactoring
- The mobile dev app
- Version control
- Writing code
- Working offline
Debugging
- Debugging game logic
- Debugging native code
- Debugging native code on Android
- Debugging native code on iOS
- Reading game and system logs
Optimization
- Optimizing an application
- Optimize game size
- Optimize runtime performance
- Optimize battery usage
- Optimize memory usage
- Profiling
Monetization
Android
- Introduction
- Advertising Info
- AdMob ads
- Android Device Performance Framework
- App review and ratings
- Camera
- Firebase Analytics
- Firebase Remote Config
- Google Play Game Services
- Google Play Instant
- Inter-app communication
- IronSource ad mediation
- Push notifications
- Play Asset Delivery
- Safe Area
- Webview
- The mobile dev app
iOS
- Introduction
- Advertising Info
- AdMob ads
- App review and ratings
- Camera
- Firebase Analytics
- Firebase Remote Config
- Inter-app communication
- IronSource ad mediation
- Push notifications
- Safe Area
- Webview
- The mobile dev app