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A float is a single-precision 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point number. By default, decimals are interpreted as doubles. To create a float, simply append an f to the decimal literal. double doubleExample = 0.5; // without 'f' after digits = double float floatExample = 0.5f; // with 'f' aft...

A double is a double-precision 64-bit IEEE 754 floating point number. double example = -7162.37; double myDouble = 974.21; double anotherDouble = 658.7; double addedDoubles = myDouble + anotherDouble; // 315.51 double subtractedDoubles = myDouble - anotherDouble; // 1632.91 double scientif...

By default, any files that you save to Internal Storage are private to your application. They cannot be accessed by other applications, nor the user under normal circumstances. These files are deleted when the user uninstalls the application. To Write Text to a File String fileName= "hellowor...

Buttons fire action events when they are activated (e.g. clicked, a keybinding for the button is pressed, ...). button.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() { @Override public void handle(ActionEvent event) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } }); ...

Don't just use Optional.get() since that may throw NoSuchElementException. The Optional.orElse(T) and Optional.orElseGet(Supplier<? extends T>) methods provide a way to supply a default value in case the Optional is empty. String value = "something"; return Optional.ofNullable(v...

Use the orElseThrow() method of Optional to get the contained value or throw an exception, if it hasn't been set. This is similar to calling get(), except that it allows for arbitrary exception types. The method takes a supplier that must return the exception to be thrown. In the first example, the...

By default, WebView does not implement JavaScript alert dialogs, ie. alert() will do nothing. In order to make you need to firstly enable JavaScript (obviously..), and then set a WebChromeClient to handle requests for alert dialogs from the page: webView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() { ...

Since Java 6, the recommended way to access an SQL-based database in Java is via the JDBC(Java DataBase Connectivity) API. This API comes in two packagages: java.sql and javax.sql. JDBC defines database interactions in terms of Connections and Drivers. A Driver interacts with the database, and pr...

filter() is used to indicate that you would like the value only if it matches your predicate. Think of it like if (!somePredicate(x)) { x = null; }. Code examples: String value = null; Optional.ofNullable(value) // nothing .filter(x -> x.equals("cool string"))// this is nev...

OptionalDouble, OptionalInt and OptionalLong work like Optional, but are specifically designed to wrap primitive types: OptionalInt presentInt = OptionalInt.of(value); OptionalInt absentInt = OptionalInt.empty(); Because numeric types do have a value, there is no special handling for null. Empt...

Enum can be considered to be syntax sugar for a sealed class that is instantiated only a number of times known at compile-time to define a set of constants. A simple enum to list the different seasons would be declared as follows: public enum Season { WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER, FA...

An enum can contain a method, just like any class. To see how this works, we'll declare an enum like this: public enum Direction { NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST; } Let's have a method that returns the enum in the opposite direction: public enum Direction { NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST; ...

String getText(String url) throws IOException { HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection(); //add headers to the connection, or check the status if desired.. // handle error response code it occurs int responseCode = conn.getResponseCod...

The Standard Edition of Java comes with some annotations predefined. You do not need to define them by yourself and you can use them immediately. They allow the compiler to enable some fundamental checking of methods, classes and code. @Override This annotation applies to a method and says that th...

One use of SharedPreferences is to implement a "Settings" screen in your app, where the user can set their preferences / options. Like this: A PreferenceScreen saves user preferences in SharedPreferences. To create a PreferenceScreen, you need a few things: An XML file to define the av...

Scanner scanner = null; try { scanner = new Scanner(new File("Names.txt")); while (scanner.hasNext()) { System.out.println(scanner.nextLine()); } } catch (Exception e) { System.err.println("Exception occurred!"); } finally { if (scanner != nul...

Sometimes the same functionality has to be written for different kinds of inputs. At that time, one can use the same method name with a different set of parameters. Each different set of parameters is known as a method signature. As seen per the example, a single method can have multiple signatures....

Needed imports: import javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem; import javax.sound.sampled.Clip; This code will create a clip and play it continuously once started: Clip clip = AudioSystem.getClip(); clip.open(AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(new URL(filename))); clip.start(); clip.loop(Clip.LOOP_CO...

The Collections class offers two standard static methods to sort a list: sort(List<T> list) applicable to lists where T extends Comparable<? super T>, and sort(List<T> list, Comparator<? super T> c) applicable to lists of any type. Applying the former requires amending...

MIDI files can be played by using several classes from the javax.sound.midi package. A Sequencer performs playback of the MIDI file, and many of its methods can be used to set playback controls such as loop count, tempo, track muting, and others. General playback of MIDI data can be done in this wa...