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

Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm today, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a formal set of rules for creating and managing objects.

Object-oriented programming gives us modifiers, which control the visibility of members and methods. In some languages, like Java, we have modifiers such as private and public.

Last time, in ”Transitioning into object-oriented programming using Java,” we learned that for a programming language to be truly object-oriented, it should support information hiding ...