How do I generate a random integer between min and max in Java?

Question

What method returns a random int between a min and max? Or does no such method exist?

What I\'m looking for is something like this:

NAMEOFMETHOD (mi         


        

Answer 1

Using the Random class is the way to go as suggested in the accepted answer, but here is a less straight-forward correct way of doing it if you didn't want to create a new Random object :

min + (int) (Math.random() * (max - min + 1));