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P. Späth, J. FriesenLearn Java for Android Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5943-6_2

2. Learning Language Fundamentals

Peter Späth1  and Jeff Friesen2
(1)
Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
(2)
Winnipeg, MB, Canada
 

Aspiring Android app developers need to understand the Java language in which an app’s source code is written. This chapter introduces you to this language by focusing on its fundamentals. Specifically, you’ll learn about application structure, comments, identifiers (and reserved words), types, variables, expressions (and literals), and statements.

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The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) has traditionally been used to encode a program’s source code. Because ASCII is limited ...

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