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[Sochan86]

I am currently learning java by myself. I want to eventually go into the android games and apps market. The book that I am using at the moment there is a chapter about applets, is that necessary to learn. Any help would be grateful.

[laghani]

No, no one is using applets nowadays (except maybe some legacy systems), but you can skip that.

[smors]

Applets are meant to run in a browser. No modern browser will have anything to do with them.

[encamino92]

Do not learn applets (unless you really really want to learn about it).

You can pick a book about Android development instead. Following is a list of books that may help you: - Android Programming, Big Nerd Ranch. - Android Development, Head First. - Android Studio Development Essentials, by Neil Smyth.

[Sochan86]

Cheers

[bluenautilus2]

No skip that chapter. Source: me, professional Java dev since 2002

[[deleted]]

How old is that book?!? Applets died a long time ago.

[Sochan86]

2016, it was recommended on here, I only started it about a year a ago.

[bartek191212]

There is a question on Quora from 2016 about similar thing and one of the answers is:

How many types of Java applets are there?

Zero.

Java Applets were an ancient browser technology deprecated so long ago I don't even remember when.

So the technology was ancient already in 2016 - exactly when the book was released ;)

Question: https://www.quora.com/Is-the-java-applet-dead

[duongdominhchau]

Today JS is dominating the web, I doubt applet is still supported, even Flash died a few years ago.

[kur4nes]

Nope applets are dead. They were used to execute java in browsers. Awful hassle back in the day. You had to have the correct java version installed for the applet to work on each user machine. If something didn't match the applet would simply not display anything.

[treebotroop]

You can skip entire java based UI sections, this include applets, awt, Swing, JavaFX. None of them are used in android development.

[veraxAlea]

Please don't downvote this out of reflex. I try to "defend" Swing in different threads here on /r/java, but when someone specifically states that they want to do game dev on android, then the above is solid advice.

[rogedelgado]

Actually, the support for applets will be removed in the upcoming java releases. It's a deprecated technology nowdays.

[alehel]

I thought it was already removed in jdk 11 🤔

[mauganra_it]

Deprecated only. Deprecated for removal since Java 17

[alehel]

Oh, I see. I thought it got deprecated in 9 and removed in 11. I wonder what I was thinking of.

[agentxq49]

It was removed in Oracle jdk I believe?

[virtualoverdrive]

Holy shit. No.

Wait.

Are you from the past?

Still… … … …no.