Java is the primary language used to create Android apps. Java, you may have heard, is an ‘object oriented’ programming language. But what precisely does that mean?

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 .

Today, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic.NET and Python are popular object-oriented languages. The following compares basic OOP terms with traditional programming. See object-oriented DBMS .