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

This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming only from the imperative, object-oriented perspective.

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Interested in Java functional programming? The first place you need to start, especially if you use the Streams API, is with this Java Function interface example.

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