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Learn Java for Android Development: Migrating Java SE Programming Skills to Mobile Development
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Learn Java for Android Development: Migrating Java SE Programming Skills to Mobile Development

by Peter Späth, Jeff Friesen
July 2020
Beginner to intermediate
860 pages
17h 6m
English
Apress
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P. Späth, J. FriesenLearn Java for Android Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5943-6_4

4. Discovering Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Interfaces

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

An object-based language is a language that encapsulates state and behaviors in objects. Java’s support for encapsulation (discussed in Chapter 3) qualifies it as an object-based language. However, Java is also an object-oriented language because it supports inheritance and polymorphism (as well as encapsulation). (Object-oriented languages are a subset of object-based languages.) In this chapter, we will introduce you to Java’s language features that support inheritance and ...

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