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[moomat]

My partner and I are developing a game with Libgdx, but we've struggled quite a lot with Scene2d. In theory it sounds OK, but the way Scene2d works in terms of position UI elements and laying out elements in a responsive way has been a nightmare for us.

Is anyone aware of any decent companion libraries or anything that simplify UI creation for Libgdx?

Just to pre-empt, as well, we have recently seen Overlap2d (http://overlap2d.com/) which seems very promising, but is probably a bit too early in development at the moment to be of much use to us currently.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

[dancing_dead]

scene2d has a few gotchas, but it's actually very capable, once you get to know it. it suffers from a bit of lack of documentation, but is very solid as a simple game ui framework.
what exactly have you been struggling with?

[moomat]

Yeah, I mean it's not terrible... The main thing for us is that the more and more complicated our UI gets, the more difficult it is to maintain. While that whole concept of "parents set the sizes of their children" seems well in theory, in reality some widgets work one way sometimes, another way at other times. Particularly, the more we attempt to make our UI "responsive" in the same meaning that web developers use, the more difficult it seems to be.

It's just the overall inconsistency of sizing that really bothers me the most.

[dancing_dead]

hmm, as long as you yourself don't try to size things everywhere, but do it at one level only consistently, you should be just fine. UI programming is a pita in general, for a code-only solution, scene2d is really pretty gud, imo