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 (min, max) 

(where min and max are ints)

that returns soemthing like this:

8

(randomly)

if such a method does exist could you please link to the relevant documentation with your answer. thanks.

Update: atempting to implement the full solution in the nextInt answer i have this:

class TestR
{
    public static void main (String[]arg) 
    {   
        Random random = new Random() ;
        int randomNumber = random.nextInt(5) + 2;
        System.out.println (randomNumber) ; 
    } 
} 

i'm still getting the same errors from the complier:

TestR.java:5: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class Random
location: class TestR
        Random random = new Random() ;
        ^
TestR.java:5: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class Random
location: class TestR
        Random random = new Random() ;
                            ^
TestR.java:6: operator + cannot be applied to Random.nextInt,int
        int randomNumber = random.nextInt(5) + 2;
                                         ^
TestR.java:6: incompatible types
found   : <nulltype>
required: int
        int randomNumber = random.nextInt(5) + 2;
                                             ^
4 errors

whats going wrong here?

Answer 1

Construct a Random object at application startup:

Random random = new Random();

Then use Random.nextInt(int):

int randomNumber = random.nextInt(max - min) + min;

Note that the lower limit is inclusive, but the upper limit is exclusive.

Answer 2

You can use Random.nextInt(n). This returns a random int in [0,n). Just using max-min+1 in place of n and adding min to the answer will give a value in the desired range.

Answer 3

import java.util.Random;