Most Android developers will use Java to write their apps. Java is an object oriented programming language. But what precisely does that mean?

What is Java? Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the 1990s (later purchased by Oracle).

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Programming Based on a C and C++-based syntax, Java is object-oriented and class-based.

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