Example applications

A set of example applications is available on the java-gi-examples GitHub repository. To run an example, install Java 22 and Gradle 8.3 (or newer), and clone the Git repository:

git clone https://github.com/jwharm/java-gi-examples

Move into one of the example folders and run gradle run:

cd HelloWorld
gradle run

If you see an error about a missing library, make sure that all dependencies are installed, and available on Java library path (the "java.library.path" system property). If necessary, you can override the Java library path with the -Djava.library.path= JVM argument in the gradle.build file. By default, it contains the system library folders of the common (RedHat/Fedora, Arch and Debian/Ubuntu) Linux distributions. Read here for instructions about other distributions and operating systems.