Will Java private fields have garbage values without initialization? If I only define a class, without creating an instance of it, will their fields have default values?

public class PokedexAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<PokedexAdapter.PokedexViewHolder> {
    public static class PokedexViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        private LinearLayout containerView;
        private TextView textView;

        PokedexViewHolder(View view) {
            
        }
    }
}

Asking VoiceGPT and it gave up.

>Solution :

No, Java private fields will not have garbage values without initialization.

Like Old Dog Programmer said:

No. Primitive fields will have default values of 0, 0.0, or false.
Object variables will have default value of null. Visibility won’t
make a difference.

However, it’s a good practice to explicitly initialize private fields to appropriate values to avoid any confusion or unintended behavior in your code.