022: Effective Java for Android developers : Item 5

In this mini Fragment, we introduce Joshua's fifth Item: Avoid creating unnecessary objects. Stay tuned for more items from our "Effective Java for Android developers" Fragment series. Show Notes Effective Java (2nd Edition) - Joshua Bloch Avoid creating unnecessary objects Google says - Avoiding creating unnecessary objects too Episode 10 with Michael Bailey - String optimization Snippet to demonstrate AutoBoxing problems // sum of all positive values Long sum = 0L; for (long i=0; i Integer.MAX_VALUE; i++) { sum+=i; } Contact: @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker [twitter.com] @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]