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Android Programming for Beginners - Second Edition
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Android Programming for Beginners - Second Edition

by John Horton
October 2018
Beginner
766 pages
16h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 9. Java Methods

As we are starting to get comfortable with Java programming, in this chapter, we will take a closer look at methods. Although we know that you can call them to make them execute their code, there is more to them than we have discussed so far.

In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:

  • Method structure
  • Method overloading versus overriding
  • A method demo mini app
  • How methods affect our variables

First, let's go through a quick method recap.

Methods revisited

The following diagram sums up where our understanding of methods is at the moment:

Methods revisited

As we can see in the preceding diagram, there are still a couple of question marks ...

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ISBN: 9781789538502