Java Swing GUI Crash Course | Part 1 (JFrame, Layouts, Listeners, Text Fields, and Spinners)

Want to build desktop apps with Java? In this lecture, we dive into Swing, Java’s built-in GUI framework. You’ll learn how to create windows, position components, handle input, and make your programs interactive — step by step.

What you’ll learn in this video:

Swing Basics: lightweight components, Event Dispatch Thread (EDT), MVC mindset

Creating Your First GUI (13.1): JFrame, JPanel, buttons, labels, simple layouts

Positioning Components (13.2): mastering GridBagLayout with constraints, spacing, and alignment

Event Handling with ActionListeners (13.3): wiring buttons and fields, validating input, feedback with JOptionPane

Formatted Input (13.4): using JFormattedTextField with numbers and dates; safe value extraction

Spinners (13.5): SpinnerNumberModel, DateModel, ListModel; min/max/step values and reacting with ChangeListener