Android How to Program, 3/e

G.11 final Methods and Classes

We saw in Sections D.3 and D.10 that variables can be declared final to indicate that they cannot be modified after they’re initialized—such variables represent constant values. It’s also possible to declare methods, method parameters and classes with the final modifier.

Final Methods Cannot Be Overridden

A final method in a superclass cannot be overridden in a subclass—this guarantees that the final method implementation will be used by all direct and indirect subclasses in the hierarchy. Methods that are declared private are implicitly final, because it’s not possible to override them in a subclass. Methods that are declared static are also implicitly final. A final method’s declaration can never change, so ...