Java Program for finding the largest element of the array

June 1, 2022

Largest Element of the array using Java

Here, in this page we will discuss the program to find the largest element of the array using java. We are given with an array and we need to print the largest element among the given elements of the array.

Here, we will discuss the following methods to find the maximum element of the array.

Method 1 : Using Iteration
Method 2 : Using recursion Top-down Approach
Method 3 : Bottom-up approach

Method 1 :

Declare a variable say max and initialize it with array first element.
Run a loop from index 1 to N, and check
If arr[i]>max, then set max = arr[i]
After complete iteration print max.

Method 1 : code in Java

Run

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Main
{
  public static void main(String args[])
  {

     int arr[] = {12, 13, 1, 10, 34, 10};

     int max = arr[0];

     for(int i=0; i<arr.length; i++)
     {
       if(max < arr[i])
       {
          max = arr[i];
       }

     }

    System.out.print(max); 
  }
}

Output :

Method 2 :

Create a recursive function say getmax(int arr[], int n)
Base Condition : if(n==1) return arr[0]
Otherwise, return max(arr[n-1], getmax(arr, n-1))

Method 2 : Code in Java

Run

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.*;

public class Main
{ 
   static int getmax(int arr[], int n){
       if(n==1)
       return arr[0];

       return Math.max(arr[n-1], getmax(arr, n-1));
   }
   public static void main(String args[])
   {

      int arr[] = {12, 13, 1, 10, 34, 10};
      int n = arr.length;
      System.out.print(getmax(arr, n)); 
   }
}

Output :

Method 3 :

Call a function : maximum(int arr[], int i, int end)

With initial call up values as maximum(arr, 0, end)
- Initially passing end as the index of last array element
- Initially passing ‘i’ as 0
Recursively reach iteration where reading 2nd last element
Find larger between 2nd last and last array elements
And return the result to max value of the previous recursive iteration
In each of the remaining recursive callups find the largest b/w current array index element and current max value
Pass final max value from last recursive callup to main and print

Method 3 : Code in Java

Run

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.*;

public class Main
{ 
   static int maximum(int arr[], int i, int end)
   {
      int max;

      // when we reach 2nd last array element
      // return the larger b/w last & 2nd last elements
      if(i == end-1)
         return (arr[i] > arr[i + 1]) ? arr[i] : arr[i + 1];

      max = maximum(arr, i + 1, end);

      return (arr[i] > max) ? arr[i] : max;
   }

   public static void main(String args[])
   {

     int arr[] = {12, 13, 1, 10, 34, 10};
     int end = arr.length-1;
     System.out.print(maximum(arr, 0, end)); 
   }
}