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Im new to android development. I would like to know why do we have to precede every overriden method with @Override annotation in android ?. In regular java this is not a requirement.
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@Overridenotation is used so the compiler can warn you if the method-signature isn’t the same as the super class method-signature. It can warn you about tedious bugs, and it is not required in Android, but it is good practice both in “normal” Java programming and Android Programming.If you in “normal” Java had misspelled the toString-method e.g.
public String toString(int n) {...}and you had the@Overridethe compiler will warn you because you are not overriding a method in the superclass.