How to determine if binary tree is balanced?

Question

It\'s been a while from those school years. Got a job as IT specialist at a hospital. Trying to move to do some actual programming now. I\'m working on binary trees now, a

Answer 1

If binary tree is balanced or not can be checked by Level order traversal:

private boolean isLeaf(TreeNode root) {
    if (root.left == null && root.right == null)
        return true;
    return false;
}

private boolean isBalanced(TreeNode root) {
    if (root == null)
        return true;
    Vector queue = new Vector();
    int level = 1, minLevel = Integer.MAX_VALUE, maxLevel = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
    queue.add(root);
    while (!queue.isEmpty()) {
        int elementCount = queue.size();
        while (elementCount > 0) {
            TreeNode node = queue.remove(0);
            if (isLeaf(node)) {
                if (minLevel > level)
                    minLevel = level;
                if (maxLevel < level)
                    maxLevel = level;
            } else {
                if (node.left != null)
                    queue.add(node.left);
                if (node.right != null)
                    queue.add(node.right);
            }
            elementCount--;
        }
        if (abs(maxLevel - minLevel) > 1) {
            return false;
        }
        level++;
    }

    return true;
}