Learning Java by Building Android Games - Second Edition

Remember that encapsulation thing?

So far we have seen what really only amounts to a kind of code-organizing convention; although we did discuss the wider goals of OOP. So now we will take things further and begin to see how we manage to achieve encapsulation with OOP.

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Definition of encapsulation

Keeping the internal workings of your code safe from interference from the programs that use it while allowing only the variables and methods you choose, to be accessed. This means your code can always be updated, extended or improved without affecting the programs that uses it if the exposed parts are still made available in the same way. It also allows the code that uses your encapsulated code to be much simpler and easier to maintain because much ...