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With no modifier, the default is package visibility. From the Java Documentation, "[package visibility] indicates whether classes in the same package as the class (regardless of their parentage) have access to the member." In this example from javax.swing, package javax.swing; public abs...

Protected visibility causes means that this member is visible to its package, along with any of its subclasses. As an example: package com.stackexchange.docs; public class MyClass{ protected int variable; //This is the variable that we are trying to access public MyClass(){ var...

In order to get the length of a String object, call the length() method on it. The length is equal to the number of UTF-16 code units (chars) in the string. String str = "Hello, World!"; System.out.println(str.length()); // Prints out 13 Live Demo on Ideone A char in a String is UTF...

By using startActivityForResult(Intent intent, int requestCode) you can start another Activity and then receive a result from that Activity in the onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) method. The result will be returned as an Intent. An intent can contain data via a Bundle ...

As you use generic types with utility classes, you may often find that number types aren't very helpful when specified as the object types, as they aren't equal to their primitive counterparts. List<Integer> ints = new ArrayList<Integer>(); Java SE 7 List<Integer> ints = new A...

All Javadoc comments begin with a block comment followed by an asterisk (/**) and end when the block comment does (*/). Optionally, each line can begin with arbitrary whitespace and a single asterisk; these are ignored when the documentation files are generated. /** * Brief summary of this class...

A Pattern can be compiled with flags, if the regex is used as a literal String, use inline modifiers: Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("foo.", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.DOTALL); pattern.matcher("FOO\n").matches(); // Is true. /* Had the regex not been compiled case...

Opening with the default browser This example shows how you can open a URL programmatically in the built-in web browser rather than within your application. This allows your app to open up a webpage without the need to include the INTERNET permission in your manifest file. public void onBrowseCli...

All Javadoc comments begin with a block comment followed by an asterisk (/**) and end when the block comment does (*/). Optionally, each line can begin with arbitrary whitespace and a single asterisk; these are ignored when the documentation files are generated. /** * Fields can be documented as ...

Executors accept a java.lang.Runnable which contains (potentially computationally or otherwise long-running or heavy) code to be run in another Thread. Usage would be: Executor exec = anExecutor; exec.execute(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { //offloaded work, no need t...

A common Executor used is the ThreadPoolExecutor, which takes care of Thread handling. You can configure the minimal amount of Threads the executor always has to maintain when there's not much to do (it's called core size) and a maximal Thread size to which the Pool can grow, if there is more work t...

If your computation produces some return value which later is required, a simple Runnable task isn't sufficient. For such cases you can use ExecutorService.submit(Callable<T>) which returns a value after execution completes. The Service will return a Future which you can use to retrieve the r...

The ScheduledExecutorService class provides a methods for scheduling single or repeated tasks in a number of ways. The following code sample assume that pool has been declared and initialized as follows: ScheduledExecutorService pool = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(2); In addition to the nor...

TL;DR == tests for reference equality (whether they are the same object) .equals() tests for value equality (whether they are logically "equal") equals() is a method used to compare two objects for equality. The default implementation of the equals() method in the Object class returns...

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement; @XmlRootElement public class User { private long userID; private String name; // getters and setters } By using the annotation XMLRootElement, we can mark a class as a root element of an XML file. import java.io.File; ...

To read an XML file named UserDetails.xml with the below content <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <user> <name>Jon Skeet</name> <userID>8884321</userID> </user> We need a POJO class named U...

Arrays are objects which provide space to store up to its size of elements of specified type. An array's size can not be modified after the array is created. int[] arr1 = new int[0]; int[] arr2 = new int[2]; int[] arr3 = new int[]{1, 2, 3, 4}; int[] arr4 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}; int len1 = ar...

By default, long is a 64-bit signed integer (in Java 8, it can be either signed or unsigned). Signed, it can store a minimum value of -263, and a maximum value of 263 - 1, and unsigned it can store a minimum value of 0 and a maximum value of 264 - 1 long example = -42; long myLong = 284; long ano...

A boolean can store one of two values, either true or false boolean foo = true; System.out.println("foo = " + foo); // foo = true boolean bar = false; System.out.println("bar = " + bar); // bar = false boolean notFoo = !foo; System.out.prin...

Server: Start, and wait for incoming connections //Open a listening "ServerSocket" on port 1234. ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(1234); while (true) { // Wait for a client connection. // Once a client connected, we get a "Socket" object // that c...