Interface only contains methods declaration and all its methods are abstract methods. In its most common form, an interface is a group of related methods with empty bodies. To create an interface, use interface keyword in class definition. The file name of interface always the same with the interface name in class definition and the extension is .java.

The RemoteControl interface defines four move methods and a getPosition() methods. These methods have no bodies. If a class implements an interface, the class should implement all the contracts / methods defined by the interface.

package org.kodejava.basic;

public interface RemoteController {
    void moveUp(int n);

    void moveRight(int n);

    void moveDown(int n);

    void moveLeft(int n);

    int[] getPosition();
}

The following snippet show you how to create a class that implements the RemoteController interface.

package org.kodejava.basic;

public class DummyRemoteControl implements RemoteController {
    private int x;
    private int y;

    public DummyRemoteControl(int x, int y) {
        this.x = x;
        this.y = y;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        RemoteController control = new DummyRemoteControl(0, 0);
        control.moveDown(10);
        control.moveLeft(5);
        System.out.println("X = " + control.getPosition()[0]);
        System.out.println("Y = " + control.getPosition()[1]);
    }

    public void moveUp(int n) {
        x = x + n;
    }

    public void moveRight(int n) {
        y = y + n;
    }

    public void moveDown(int n) {
        x = x - n;
    }

    public void moveLeft(int n) {
        y = y - n;
    }

    public int[] getPosition() {
        return new int[]{x, y};
    }
}

To implement an interface, a java class must use implements keyword on its class definition. For example, class A implements interface B. The class definition of class A would look like this:

class A implements B {
}

A class can implements more than one interfaces. For example, class A can implements interface B and interface C:

class A implements B, C {
}

Classes that implements an interface must implements all methods declared in that interface.

package org.kodejava.basic;

public interface Language {

    String getBirthday();
    String getGreeting();

}

The following class is an English implementation of the Language interface.

package org.kodejava.basic;

public class English implements Language {
    public String getBirthday() {
        return "Happy Birthday";
    }

    public String getGreeting() {
        return "How are you?";
    }
}

The following class is an Indonesian implementation of the Language interface.

package org.kodejava.basic;

public class Indonesian implements Language {
    public String getBirthday() {
        return "Selamat Ulang Tahun";
    }

    public String getGreeting() {
        return "Apa kabar?";
    }
}

And here is a snippet that show the interface and classes in action.

package org.kodejava.basic;

public class LanguageDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Language language = new English();
        System.out.println(language.getBirthday());
        System.out.println(language.getGreeting());

        language = new Indonesian();
        System.out.println(language.getBirthday());
        System.out.println(language.getGreeting());
    }
}