What is the best way to work around the fact that ALL Java bytes are signed?

Question

In Java, there is no such thing as an unsigned byte.

Working with some low level code, occasionally you need to work with bytes that have unsigned values greater tha

Answer 1

I know this is a very late response, but I came across this thread when trying to do the exact same thing. The issue is simply trying to determine if a Java byte is >127.

The simple solution is:

if((val & (byte)0x80) != 0) { ... }

If the real issue is >128 instead, just adding another condition to that if-statement will do the trick.