Can you use conditional statements in switch-case in Android?

Question

I can\'t seem to find a straight forward yes or no to this in my searching. In Android, is there a way to use a conditional statement in case-switch? For example, with age being

Answer 1

You can't do this use if then statement.

if(age > 79)
{
   //do stuff
}
else if(age > 50)
{
   //do stuff
}
else
{
   /do stuff
}

etc...

Answer 2

You can't use conditional statements with switch.

But you CAN do it with if statements! If you have a loop you can use continue to stop any upcoming lines and start from the beginning of the innermost loop.

if(age>76){
    // Code...
    continue;
}else if(age>50){
    // More Code...
    continue;
}else{
    // Even more code...
    continue;
}

Answer 3

If you are using a loop you might want to look at What is the "continue" keyword and how does it work in Java?. This is not a good place to use switch.

if(age > 79)
{
   //do stuff
   continue; // STOP FLOW HERE AND CONTINUE THE LOOP
}
else if(age > 50)
{
   //do stuff
   continue; // STOP FLOW HERE AND CONTINUE THE LOOP
}

Answer 4

each case of switch is supposed to be an integer or String since JavaSE 7 and you are trying to feed a boolean value to it so its not possible .Read oracle doc to know about java switch in detail http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/switch.html

Answer 5

No. You cannot do this,

switch (age){
case (>79):
  // Do this stuff
  break;
case (>50):
  // Do this other stuff
  break;
}

You need an if and else,

if (age > 79) {
 // do this stuff.
} else if (age > 50) {
 // do this other stuff.
} // ...

Answer 6

It is not possible. Instead, Try this minimalist approach

 age > 79 ? first_case_method() 
          : age > 50 ? second_case_method() 
          : age > 40 ? third_case_method() 
          : age > 30 ? fourth_case_method() 
          : age > 20 ? fifth_case_method()
          : ... 
          : default_case_method();